12 Facts About Breuil-Cervinia

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Breuil-Cervinia is a frazione of the comune of Valtournenche, and is considered one of the most renowned winter and summer tourist resorts in the Alps.

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Breuil-Cervinia being one of Europe's highest ski resorts, its climate features low temperatures and consistent snow falls.

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In 1963, the Breuil-Plan Maison cable car, the first cable car to be built in Breuil-Cervinia, was replaced by a new, large cable car, and a second cable car was built next to it in order to double the hourly capacity of the ski lifts.

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Today Breuil-Cervinia is fully dependent on tourism, both during winter and summer, thanks to the possibility of summer ski on the Plateau Rosa Glacier and the ski lifts links of Matterhorn Ski Paradise, the beauty of its alpine landscape and the presence of the Matterhorn.

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In summer, the plains of Breuil-Cervinia are home to alpine pastures with cows whose milk is used to produce the first Aosta Valley cheese, Fontina, and other toma cheeses.

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Breuil-Cervinia is connected, weather permitting, with Zermatt via the Plateau Rosa glacier, where summer skiing is practised, and with the part of the Valtournenche ski resort via the Cime Bianche mountain pass.

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Special and spectacular event related to alpine skiing in Breuil-Cervinia was Azzurrissimo, a skiing competition held on the Ventina slope, 11 kilometres long and delimited by the symbolic number of 100 gates.

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Breuil-Cervinia has hosted the Snowboard Cross World Cup four times, in the 2018,2019,2020 and 2022 seasons, making it a fixed stop on the circuit.

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Breuil-Cervinia was supposed to host a stage in the 2021 season, which was cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

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10.

Breuil-Cervinia has hosted a stage of the most famous cycling race in Italy Giro d'Italia five times, in 1960,1997,2012,2015 and 2018.

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Streets of Breuil-Cervinia have hosted several editions of the Giro Ciclistico della Valle d'Aosta, an event dedicated to the under-23s road cyclists and which has launched many internationally renowned cyclists such as Ivan Gotti and Fabio Aru.

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12.

Breuil-Cervinia was the scene of several editions of speed skiing competitions.

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