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Sestriere
Italy · The Mediterranean

Sestriere

Italy's highest town

Live destinationIn the The Mediterranean journey

Italy's highest town. Below, everything you need here — grouped by the Wells that matter, with vetted providers and straight pricing.

Stay-Well
Where you rest
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Angama Mara
★ Prime
Clifftop tented suites with sweeping Mara views
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Governors' Camp
★ Prime
Front-row tents on the Mara River
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Mahali Mzuri
★ Prime
Sir Richard Branson's tented camp
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Sarova Mara Game Camp
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Reliable comfort in the heart of the reserve
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Activities-Well
What excites you
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Mara Hot-Air Balloon
★ Prime
Sunrise flight + champagne breakfast
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Maasai Village Cultural Visit
★ Prime
Meet the community, respectfully
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Big Cat Tracking Experience
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With a resident researcher
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Walking Safari — Olare Motorogi
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On foot with armed rangers
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Eat-Well
What you savor
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Bush Dinner by Angama
★ Prime
Candlelit dining on the plains
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Emakoko Restaurant
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Farm-to-table at the park gate
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Talisman, Nairobi
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A Karen institution before you fly out
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Carnivore Nairobi
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The famous beast-of-a-feast
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Move-Well
Getting around
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Mara Land Cruiser Safaris
★ Prime
Private 4×4 with expert guide
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Abercrombie & Kent Transfers
★ Prime
Seamless private transfers
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Scenic Air Transfers
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Fly between camps
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Nairobi Executive Cars
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Airport & city transfers
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Don't-miss jewels

Ski the whole Milky Way on one pass — ~400 km cross-borderEssential

link Sestriere, Sauze d'Oulx, San Sicario, Claviere and French Montgenèvre across 400 km of mostly intermediate pistes on a single Vialattea ticket

ski ~Dec-Apr; verify school/operator 10-15%
Ski the Gianni Agnelli Olympic slopeComfort

carve the very run that staged the 2006 men's Olympic and current World Cup races, named for the FIAT patriarch

High winter — Christmas/New Year, Feb settimana bianca half-terms, Easter school/operator 10-15%
Floodlit night skiing at 2,035 mComfort

Sestriere runs illuminated evening pistes — ski under lights at Italy's highest town, then dinner in the village, a genuine only-here evening

High winter — Christmas/New Year, Feb settimana bianca half-terms, Easter operator/venue
Snow-sure spring skiing on a 2,035 m baseEssential

with pistes to 2,789 m and ~120 snowmaking-covered runs, Sestriere holds cover into spring better than lower resorts — late-March/April sun-skiing at value rates

late Mar-Apr; verify operator/DMC 10-20%
A cross-border lunch in France (Montgenevre)Essential

ski from Italy over to Montgenèvre for a French mountain lunch and back on the same pass

High winter — Christmas/New Year, Feb settimana bianca half-terms, Easter within pass/guide
Private coaching on World Cup terrainComfort

hire a local instructor to sharpen technique on the very GS and downhill pitches the World Cup and Olympics use

High winter — Christmas/New Year, Feb settimana bianca half-terms, Easter school/operator 10-15%
Drop the Kandahar Banchetta — the Olympic downhillComfort

for strong skiers, the 2006 men's Olympic downhill course is a genuine bucket-list descent under a guide

High winter — Christmas/New Year, Feb settimana bianca half-terms, Easter school/operator 10-15%
Sunny cruising over to Sauze d'OulxEssential

link Sestriere's high open bowls to neighbouring Sauze d'Oulx's tree-lined runs — 220 km of intermediate terrain makes this the mileage-cruiser's week

High winter — Christmas/New Year, Feb settimana bianca half-terms, Easter school/operator 10-15%
Watch a World Cup race on Olympic snowComfort

Sestriere is still a live FIS Alpine Ski World Cup stage

High winter — Christmas/New Year, Feb settimana bianca half-terms, Easter DMC/event 10-20%
The Turin 2006 20th-anniversary heritage tourEssential

2026 marks 20 years since the Games Sestriere co-hosted; the Olympic Village, medal slopes and towers make a compact self-guided or DMC heritage circuit

High winter — Christmas/New Year, Feb settimana bianca half-terms, Easter DMC/bundle
Nordic + ski-jump heritage at PragelatoEssential

the neighbouring Vialattea village of Pragelato staged the 2006 Olympic cross-country and ski-jumping events

winter; verify Nordic ops DMC/venue
A snow-sure, value settimana biancaEssential

wide intermediate pistes, a high snow-reliable base and Italian-family pricing make Sestriere a classic value white-week vs the Swiss palaces

Dec-Apr; Feb white weeks premium operator/DMC 10-20%
Learn-to-ski on gentle high pistesEssential

96 km of easy runs plus ski schools and rental in a compact, car-manageable village make Sestriere an easy first-ski base for kids

High winter — Christmas/New Year, Feb settimana bianca half-terms, Easter school/shop 10-15%
A compact, purpose-built village that works with kidsEssential

Sestriere was designed as a resort from scratch — ski-in/ski-out, walkable, everything close

High winter — Christmas/New Year, Feb settimana bianca half-terms, Easter hotel/DMC 10-15%
A 400 km domain for ~EUR 66 a dayEssential

the Vialattea's main-season adult day pass is about €66 for 400 km across two countries

ski ~Dec-Apr; verify within pass/operator
A long, snow-sure, value season (28 Nov 2026-18 Apr 2027)Essential

the 2026/27 season runs 28 Nov 2026–18 Apr 2027 on a 2,035 m base with ~120 snowmaking-backed pistes

early Dec + late Mar-Apr value windows operator/DMC 10-20%
The FIAT towers — the birthplace of the ski resortEssential

the two cylindrical 1930s hotel towers Giovanni Agnelli built are the village's founding buildings and its symbol

High winter — Christmas/New Year, Feb settimana bianca half-terms, Easter hotel/consortia
Stand in an Olympic VillageEssential

Sestriere hosted one of Turin 2006's three Olympic Villages and every men's alpine race — a rare chance to walk actual Winter-Olympic ground

High winter — Christmas/New Year, Feb settimana bianca half-terms, Easter bundle/DMC
Piedmont food-and-wine down the valleyComfort

pair the mountain with one of Italy's great gastronomic regions — Turin's cafés and the Langhe/Barolo country lie down-valley

High winter — Christmas/New Year, Feb settimana bianca half-terms, Easter DMC/venue 10-15%
The Agnelli-to-Nasi founding storyEssential

the resort Giovanni Agnelli built in the 1930s was expanded after WWII by his nephew Giovanni Nasi

High winter — Christmas/New Year, Feb settimana bianca half-terms, Easter bundle/DMC
Play one of Europe's highest golf coursesComfort

the 18-hole, par-65 Golf Club Sestrieres plays at 2,035 m

~Jul-Sep — verify club/DMC 10-15%
Summer stay-and-play at 2,035 mComfort

bundle rounds at the highest-in-Europe Golf Club Sestrieres with a village hotel base and cool mountain summer air

~Jul-Sep — verify club/DMC 10-15%
High-alpine hiking + e-biking across the VialatteaEssential

in summer the ski domain becomes a lift-served high-trail and MTB playground under the Cottian Alps

~Jun-Sep — verify lift ops operator/affiliate 8-15%
Summer chairlift viewpoints over the Cottian AlpsEssential

ride the summer-open lifts to high-plateau panoramas at 2,000 m+ without the climb

~Jul-Sep — verify lift ops lift/bundle
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