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VISITITALY WHAT TO SEE PIEDMONT ALTA VAL SUSA E CHISONE SESTRIERE

Things to do in Sestriere Italy – what to see attractions and activities

Welcome to Sestriere Italy. If you’are planning to visit Sestriere for your next trip and you are looking for the best places to visit, here you’ll find tips and suggestions of most popular point of interest and activities not to be missed in Sestriere and surrounding. Travelers will appreciate this italian town with his rich historical and artistic heritage, local culture and environment. Discover the monuments, buildings, natural treasures and all the details that characterize Sestriere and its territory.  Share and suggest a place you've visited.

Skiing in Seriere

Skiing in Sestriere
Skiing in Sestriere

Sestriere, belongs to the mountain community of Val di Susa and Val Sangone. Very well known internationally, because it was chosen several times as the venue for important sporting events, such as the World Ski Championships in '97 and the Winter Olympics in 2006. The town is well connected to five other ski resorts, and offers a total of 400 km of slopes of which 120 km snow-covered artificially and 89 slopes equipped with lighting to give the possibility to attend the plants even at night!

The offers for skiers are numerous: in particular the ski passes that allows you to ski at affordable prices and at certain times of the year can also be combined with bookings of hotels. The name 'Sestriere' is the derivative of 'Petra Sexteria' or 'Sixth Pieta'. It was a point of reference that through trigonometric calculations allowed to measure the distance from the city of Turin. The alpine scenery is splendid and you can enjoy it from the top of the 2,035 meters above sea level of the resort. In winter you can ski or get off snowboarding on the legendary slopes Kandahar, Banchetta, Nasi where Olympic and World Prizes have been awarded.

Sestriere was one of the oldest Italian ski resorts: its sunny and snowy slopes are the scene of descents with the skis since the 1930s. Sestriere fully deserves the nickname assigned to her: Pearl of the Milky Way.

written by Sheila Pickles - Last update: 31/10/2021
This guide has been translated automatically through a third party service. Visititaly offers these automatic translations to help site visitors, however the automatic translations may contain inaccuracies, errors or inaccuracies. You can contact us to report inaccuracies or errors and we will check the translation.

What To See near Sestriere

Oulx (8 Km)

Torre Delfinale

The Torre Delfinale has a square-shaped structure composed of different stone materials. The building was built around the 14th century and served as the residence of Royal officials. In the middle of the 18th century, the tower was abandoned for reasons that are still unknown. In 1882 the tower was purchased by Minister Luigi Des Ambrois of Nevache. After his death, he passed ownership to the Municipality, which, in collaboration with the Superintendence for Architectural and Environmental Heritage of Piedmont, made it possible to restore it.

Salbertrand (12 Km)

Parco Naturale Gran Bosco

Extended on the southern slope of the Susa Valley at an altitude ranging from 1,000 to 2,600 meters, the Park includes the areas of Chiomonte, Exilles, Oulx, Salbertrand and Sauze d'Oulx. Its purpose is to protect 700 hectares of mixed wood of white fir and spruce, unique in Piedmont. In the past, these forests have been exploited to obtain large beams used in civil and military engineering works, such as the Arsenal of Turin, the Basilica of Superga and the Venaria Reale. In addition, the wide variety of environments provides an ideal habitat for many animals: from birds of prey to mammals such as wild boar, deer and suede. Wolves have also returned in the park, frequent sightings since 1997.

Salbertrand (12 Km)

Ecomuseo Colombano Romean

The Colombano Romean Ecomuseum in Salbertrand, in the Gran Bosco Natural Park, collects the memories of land and water of the community. The route includes: the hydraulic mill, which tells 800 years of exploitation of water, from feudal milling rights to the production of electricity; the school of the past and a set-up ethnographic; the common oven of the Oulme hamlet; the ancient charcoal maker and the lime furnace; the nineteenth-century ice box with the adjoining supply pond; the smoke-sauna built thanks to a project European conducted by the Politecnico di Torino; the site dedicated to the Glorious Return of the Waldenses. The tour also includes the splendid parish church of St. John the Baptist and the chapel of the Annunziata di Oulme. Ancient buildings and artifacts present themselves to the visitor as examples of a past today to be discovered. For school groups and organized groups there are thematic accompaniments carried out by specialized guides and educational courses have been devised. In addition, since 2006, the cultural association Ar.Te.Mu.Da animates guided tours to the ecomuseum with theatricalized accompaniments.

Fenestrelle (16 Km)

Ridotta di Carlo Alberto

Carlo Alberto's Ridata was built during the 19th century to replace Fort Mutin. The structure took the name of the then King of Sardinia Carlo Alberto who requested its construction. Originally the Reduction was made up of two squat and adjacent buildings of which today only one remains that has a pyramidal trunk shape developed over five floors. The structures were connected to the Fort of the Fenestrelle through a moat that reached the Western Pincers of Fort San Carlo.

Fenestrelle (16 Km)

Forte delle Valli

Forte delle Valli is a fortified complex built in the 18th century in Val Chisone, province of Turin. It is more commonly called 'the Great Piedmontese Wall', thanks to its greatness. Initially, he had the task of protecting the Italian-French border. From 1946 to 1990 it was abandoned, later restorations began, still underway today. In 1999 it became a symbol of the Province of Turin. In 2007 he was included in the list of the 100 most at risk of international historical archaeological sites, by the World Monuments Fund.

Fenestrelle (16 Km)

Forte di Fenestrelle

The Fort of Fenestrelle is a fortified complex built from the 18th to the 19th century in Val Chisone. It is said “The Great Wall of Piedmontese” for its development along the left flank of the valley. The design idea came from Ignazio Bertola who built it with the intent to protect the Italian-French border. The complex was not the site of serious assaults but only the protagonist of minor conflicts and a brief clash during World War II. The structure of the Fort consists of 7 reduced and 3 forts connected together by stairs, ramparts and stands.

Bardonecchia (19 Km)

Parco Archeologico "Tur d'Amun"

The Tur d'Amun, in a dominant position over the Bardonecchia basin and the Borgovecchio, was born around the second half of the 12th century with military functions in order to control the outlets of the two valleys of Frejus and Rho and be visually in communication with the fortification by Bramafam. The residence of the legendary lord François de Bardonnèche originally had a mighty central tower 21 meters high, preserved up to the height of the battlements still in the 1920s. In the whole area, purchased in 1998 by the Municipality of Bardonecchia, an archaeological park is now set up which, by means of self-guided panels, allows to investigate the structures, their history and evolution over time. The tower can now be visited, of which the first two floors above ground have been recovered, parts of the small eastern tower, sections of the walls that delimited the downstream complex, the circular towers of the southern side and some service rooms.

Bardonecchia (20 Km)

Museo Civico Etnografico

Do you want to know the testimonies of the material culture of the old mountain village of Bardonecchia? Since 1954 there is the Ethnographic Civic Museum, housed in the nineteenth-century building once the seat of the municipal house. It offers an insight into the daily life and culture of mountain people, and illustrates the rhythms of the agricultural and pastoral economy that characterized the country before the advent of mass tourism. It collects objects, furniture, furnishings and tools, as well as a small section of sacred art. It is also possible to observe the local women's costume and the precious lace made in a ring, a traditional workmanship that is still practiced by some local women. Also on display are objects and work tools, photographs and vintage postcards depicting views of the time that was.

Other attractions in Sestriere

Chalet Sul Lago - >Moncenisio
Chalet Sul Lago
Moncenisio (28 Km) - Regione Lago, 8
e-mail www +39122653315
A new characteristic hotel and restaurant. Typicalmountain’s chalet valorized from a wonderful panoramic lake view just a few meters. The hotel restaurant offer a typical mountain cuisine, valorized by the home made pasta from Anna chef, we breed directly trout, sturgeon and perch, that are served fresh. The Hotel rooms are in style, some directly with lake view, other on the fantastic chain of Rocciamelone, others on the MontCenis. All set in the history of MontCenis, a picturesque hamlet in one of the most beautiful mountains of Piedmont, less than one hour from Turin.

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