5 Beautiful Italian Mountain Villages to Visit Before the Winter Olympics Crowds Arrive
In less than a year, the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympics will kick off in the Italian Dolomites. These are the idyllic mountain ...
The best way to experience Alpine culture? Eat—and drink—it
For thousands of years, people have survived in the Alps with traditional, straightforward food and drink. From strudel to ...
The tiny autonomous region in the Alps with loads of castles and 3 languages
This tiny sliver of land is home to just 128,000 people, yet boasts some of Europe's most breathtaking landscapes and ...
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One of the Last Wild Faces in the Alps Finally Climbed
Punta Pioda doesn't have the same notoriety as the north faces of the Eiger, the Matterhorn, or the Grandes Jorasses. But ...
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14 Top Vacation Destinations in the French Alps
The town, more commonly referred to as Chamonix, sits in the heart of France's Haute-Savoie department, a subdivision of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region (like how the U.S. has counties within ...
For a next-level picnic, there’s nothing like a Swiss Alps fondue backpack
The next day we were out hiking with my aunt and uncle, and they mentioned seeing a flyer for a fondue backpack picnic. My ...
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A courtship tradition in the Alps region
Scheibenschlagen is an old custom of courtship that takes place on the first Sunday of Lent. Using long poles, young unmarried men hurl burning wooden discs down the valley while shouting out the ...
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Olympic organizing team unveiled for 2030 Winter Games in French Alps
Rising to environmental challenges was stressed by the head of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region that includes Nice and Marseille. Renaud Muselier cautioned that in dealing with the reality of ...