Marta's Monterosa Blog

I am passionate about the Alps. They are my heart's home and the place where I would like to spend the last day of my life. I have been a tourist in the village of Champoluc in the Italian Monterosa for all my life and worked as a tourist operator in this area since more than 15 years.

I believe in respect for the special environment of this place that you can find only here. We all gain by enjoying its beauty, while trying to make a minimum impact at the same time. Leave it for our children in the future!

I believe in respect for people who live here with their traditions and culture, language, and work, their genuine products and delicious wines. They open their homes for us, tourists and meet us as their guests, if we are able to open our hearts for them. I have a friend who is a hotel owner and he says that when stressed people from the city come to his place, he tells them to sit down and take a drink before they even begin to worry if they have a room. Perhaps, we can bring a little of their kindness and calmness with us on our way back to the city.

My philosophy is to give back a little of what the mountains and the people from this place have given to me and to my family through my work, to communicate my philosophy and my passion to those who follow me on the blog, and in my trips as a tour operator.

If you would like to visit Champoluc, Gressoney, Alagna or other villages in the Aosta Valley, trek or ski in the Monterosa, discover Sardinia or other places we offer, contact us.

Posted: Jan 4, 2016

New site of the new season

Alagna tailor made ski holidays

Winter has  come to Monterosa at last so it is high time to start ski season. This year we open it with a new, refreshed website.

After 20 years with our two websites www.thealps.com and www.monterosa.com - we decided to merge their contents and give them a new, fresh layout. The result is our remade www.thealps.com.

Posted: Jun 15, 2015

Tor des Géants 2015 coming soon!

Tor des Geantes 2013

Only 89 days left to one of the biggest sport event in the Aosta Valley. Tor des Géants is the endurance trail race that goes through the most spectacular Four-Thousanders on the Alta Via trails. Two years ago we were there! Read our report.

 

Tour of Giants is the only race that combines long distance with the individual style of runners. A participant, who completes the race in the shortest times, wins. However, runners

 

Posted: May 19, 2015

Himla bra arrangerad resa

Hej Marta,

Tack för himla bra arrangerad resa!

Med vänlig hälsning

Jan

Alagna

Posted: Mar 14, 2014

Alagna, a real mountain village

When you walk around the village of Alagna you get a little confused. The big wooden houses mix up with decorated palaces from the 19th century and compose a narrow puzzle of streets and squares in all directions.

Old Mountain Hut

Posted: Feb 19, 2014

New timetable Lifts Alagna

Spring is getting closer and the days are getting longer! 

From the 22nd of February the gondola Alagna-Pianalunga will change its schedule fore the weekend, to allow all people to enjoy their skiing days and to stay...

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