Due to the direct connection to France and its ski slopes, we talk about a total area of 150 km where 78 alpine ski slopes with ski lifts extend avant-garde and about twenty kilometers of cross-country skiing trails.
This is one of the most preferred resorts in all of Europe, as the slopes are completely snowy starting from November to April . On the one hand, due to the height between 1400-2700 m above sea level, on the other thanks to the eighty-two cannons of snow.
The Thuile became known first and foremost for its ski resorts but also its archaeological sites were and are objects of great interest. So the Celtic cromlech on the Piccolo Colle del San Bernardo. In the middle of this ritual place the border line between Italy and France flows. The cromlech is a series of stelae that form an elliptical circle and could be a sort of Stonehenge, with a ritual link to the summer solstice. However, there are also remains of Roman times, the territory was then called Alpis Graia.
Here a column was erected, the Column of Jupiter, 4 and a half meters high. It was a column made of granite on which in the Middle Ages the figure of Saint Bernard was placed and with this also changed the name of the hill. Even today the area is very busy and we can only talk politically of 'border'.
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