Cortina
d'Ampezzo, Italy
Simply the world's most beautiful
winter playground.
Nowhere
is more picturesque than chic Cortina, the most up market
of Italian resorts. Dramatic pink-tinged peaks rise
sheerly from the top of the slopes, giving
picture-postcard views from wherever you are.
Cortina's
slopes are fine for its regular up market visitors from
Rome and Milan, many of whom have second homes here and
enjoy the strolling, shopping, people-watching and
lunching as much as the odd leisurely excursion on to the
slopes. For
beginners and leisurely intermediates, the splendid
nursery slopes and long, easy, well-groomed runs are
ideal. For keen slope-bashers, Cortina's fragmented areas
can be frustrating, especially if snow is scarce and the
area is fragmented even more; but the access to the Sella
Ronda and other Dolomite Super ski resorts, though time
consuming, is some compensation - having a car is best for
exploring. For experts, there are few tough runs, and the
best of those are liable to poor snow conditions and
closure because they face south.
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What's
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What's
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Magnificent
Dolomite scenery - perhaps the most dramatic of any
winter resort
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Marvelous nursery slopes and good long cruising
runs, ideal for nervous intermediates
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Access to the vast area covered by the Dolomite
Super ski pass
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Attractive, although rather towny, resort, with lots
of up market shops
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Good off-slope facilities
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Remarkably uncrowded slopes
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Several separate areas of slopes, which are
inconveniently spread around all sides of the resort
and linked by buses
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Poor recent snow record - Expensive by Italian
standards
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Gets very crowded during Italian holidays
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Very little for experts - Mobile phones and fur
coats may drive you nuts
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