Which are the biggest skiing areas in Italy? Every skier surely has asked himself this question while he was choosing the destination for his white week. That because a bigger skiing area allows to discover always new landscapes and doesn’t force you to repeat many times the same run. Many lifts usually mean a lot of fun. But sometimes they also mean a lot of people, because the ski resorts which offer the higher number of slopes and lifts are often more crowded than the littler ones.
The largest ski resort in Italy
1 Sellaronda (Val Gardena, Alta Badia, Val di Fassa, Arabba Marmolada)
500 km of slopes
500 Km of slopes are connected to each other in a beautiful skiing area at a middle altitude mostly surrounded by the woods. There are many of the most famous resorts in the Dolomites
More info about: Val Gardena, Alta Badia, Canazei, Arabba, and Malga Ciapela.
2 Via Lattea (Sestriere, Claviere, Sauze d’Oulx ecc)
400 Km of slopes
Vialattea, the second Italian skiing area, that has its roots in the 30s, when Agnelli family built the first ski lifts in Sestriere. The other resorts connected are Sauze d’Oulx, Claviere, San Sicario, Cesana Torinese and the French Montgenèvre.
Matterhorn Ski Paradise (Cervinia, Valtournenche, Zermatt)
380 Km of slopes
It is one of the most panoramic skiing area of the world, with high altitude sceneries and slopes arriving up to 3900 m. It includes Cervinia, Valtournenche and Zermatt.
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Madonna di Campiglio – Folgarida – Marilleva – Pinzolo
180 Km of slopes
After years of waiting also Pinzolo was included on the already wide skiing area, thanks to the new gondola lift connecting it to Madonna di Campiglio. From here, you can go down skiing to Folgarida and Marilleva.
Espace San Bernardo (La Thuile, La Rosiere)
155 km
A beautiful skiing area at a high altitude, not too crowded, between Italy and France, which puts together La Thuile and La Rosiere across the French borders.
PontediLegno Tonale
150 km
The inhabitants of Brescia mountains called it “the big dream”. Actually, connecting resorts that are so different was a wise choice. Temù and Ponte di Legno are more technical, they offers challenging dry snow slopes, and high mountain sceneries. In Tonale Pass, on the other hand, you will find simpler and sunnier slopes, while in Presena you can ski on the glacier until late season.
