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Written by BrusselsLife Team -
01 Oct 2007, 00:00
(Updated: 13 Dec 2012, 07:59)
You haven't enough of them? Here's a little lexicon, by mountain range, of the French resorts. All the resorts offer snowshoe routes, skating rinks, torchlight descents, well-being centres, and many other things besides. BrusselsLife has done a bit of ferreting to find you the best that each resort has to offer.
ALPS
- Courchevel: Domaine des Trois Vallées, sure value, future-oriented. More info, click here
- Granier: The mountain for the mountain, without much infrastructure. More info, click here
- Les Menuires: Domaine des Trois Vallées, every kind of run, for all levels. More info, click here
- La Norma: 9km from the motorway, 1,400 metres of spot elevation, very fluid skiable slopes. More info, click here
- Les Houches: At the foot of Mont-Blanc, Ski Joering (horse-pulled skiing), "Mont-Blanc Unlimited" all-in price. More info, click here
- Chamrousse: Skiing, yes, but not only: initiation in the search for avalanche of victims, ice driving, ice diving, snowmobiles… More info, click here
- Samoëns: Domaine du Grand Massif, 14-km piste opposite Mont Blanc, "après-ski" enthusiasts welcome. More info, click here
- Flaine: Domaine du Grand Massif, perfect balance between functionality, comfort, environmental respect, modernity and large-scale skiing. More info, click here
- La Plagne: Domaine de Paradiski, 10 resorts with various ambiances and facilities. More info, click here
- Mégève: Sport and authenticity, exemplary service, "Best of the Alps" resort (joining together twelve resorts in a single chain). More info, click here
- Villard de Lans: Skiing and mountain activities, guaranteed comfort, allcomers and families welcome. More info, click here
- Queyras: Away from mass tourism, but with every modern infrastructure, and a lot of sun. More info, click here
- Les Arcs: Domaine de Paradiski, from 810 to 3,800 metres: Bourg-Saint-Maurice, Les Arcs 1600, 1800, 1950, 2000: 5 resorts, 5 spirits. More info, click here
- Pra-Loup: Kingdom of warm little establishments. More info, click here
- Les Orres: Towards a new innovative tourist policy: unequalled quality of welcome, original leisure equipment and entertainments in a friendly setting. More info, click here
- La Sauze Super Sauze: For practising your favourite sport in a preserved environment. Family resort. More info, click here
- Les Ecrins: Two resorts for Alpine skiing, three sites for cross-country, rambling and nature-loving, and a unique ambiance. More info, click here
- La Rosière: At 1,850 metres of altitude, a balcony resort, facing due South. International San Bernardo skiable field, thanks to its connexion with La Thuile, the Val d'Aoste resort (Italy). More info, click here
- Brides-les-Bains: Domaine des Trois Vallées, visa for large-scale skiing, base camp open on to the biggest skiable slopes of the world, surf briskly on the well-being wave. More info, click here
- Cordon: the Mont-Blanc balcony, a human-sized skiable slope with affordable prices, and a preserved quality of life. More info, click here
MASSIF CENTRAL
- Le Lioran: Best equipped slope of the Massif Central. More info, click here
MASSIF DU JURA
- Monts Jura: opposite Mont-Blanc and the Alpine range, unique panorama. Has the highest spot elevation of the Massif du Jura. More info, click here
PYRENEES
- Val d'Azun: 100 km of cross-country ski tracks between 1,400 and 1,600 metres of altitude. More info, click here
- Piau-Engaly: highest Pyrenean resort, skiing for all, icefall climbing. More info, click here
- Saint-Lary: leader in the Pyrenean Range, ambiance and conviviality. More info, click here
VOSGES : More info, click here
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