Two new runs have been created ready for the coming winter at Cervinia in Italy’s Aosta Valley.
Located in the north west of the country, Cervinia and it’s neighbour Valtournenche share one of Europe’s biggest and highest ski areas with 360km of piste stretching across the Swiss border to Zermatt.
The new runs are located in the Pancheron and Cretaz sectors overlooked by the south face of the Matterhorn. New red (intermediate) run “Gran Roc” (run number 62 on the piste map) is accessed by the high-speed six-seat Pancheron chair and descends parallel to the “slow ski” run (9B) and ends up in the area of Cretaz from where you can carry on along the legendary run “5” which finishes in resort at the base of the Cretaz chairlift. The new run provides another route through a unique area known as the “city of rocks”, where huge boulders that rise up out of the white snow.
The second new piste, also a red, “Vallone 5” (5b) above run 5 in Cretaz is located ina sunny position and offers 300m of vertical descent.
Cervinia will open the weekends of 13th-14th and 20th-21st October then every day from 27th October to 5th May 2013.