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: Jun 4, 2015

Will we pay more for lifts?

Lifts will not be public transport in Italy.

Cable cars and chairs lifts do not count as public transport. This is what the Supreme Court in Italy has recently ruled. If it comes into effect, it will mean higher tax costs for ski resorts. And for tourists?

 

The decision of the Supreme Court makes lift owners pay municipal tax on real estate. It caused uproar in ski resorts as it can cause annual costs even 25 000 euros for a 5-setaer chairlift and up to 50 000 euros for a gondola. Now we are facing a discussion about the future of the ski resorts sector

Posted: May 21, 2015

Let's start the summer! Rifugio Deffeyes opening season

Rifugio Deffeys

Rifugio Deffeyes invites for the summer opening. You can book your stay already and enjoy beautiful mountains lakes in the valley, as well as trek Alta Via.

 

The Alberto Deffeyes refuge is located in the La Thuile valley at 2494 m.

Posted: Apr 9, 2015

Long winter stay in Champoluc

We're definetly coming back!

Snowboarding in Champoluc

We are three guys from Sweden. We live ordinary lives with work and routines as everyone else back home in Stockholm. But one day, the three of us decided that we wanted to do something different for a while. All of us have a great passion for skiing and snowboarding, so we decided to do a season in the Alps. As we started to discuss where we should go, Italy and Monterosa soon became the obvious place for our visit. 

Posted: Mar 25, 2015

No skiing in Champoluc, part 2

When you are in Champoluc for one week, and you do not only want to ski, what could you do? I have a job mate at our office, and she says: skiing do many people, so I don’t need to.

There is a point in this indeed. She is in Champoluc one week in early March, and she enjoys. How can she survive in this environment, which is so incredibly dedicated to skiing as Champoluc in wintertime? What else could possibly be done here?

Champoluc Hotel Castor

Posted: Mar 23, 2015

Spring edition of the Ski for Free offer

View over Champoluc

If you missed the Ski for Free offer in winter there is a chance to get one in the spring edition.

Ski for Free offer is back between the 23rd March and 12th April. If you book at least 4 days in one of hotels that take part in the offer in Ayas and Gressoney Valleys you will get your ski pass for free.

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