Valmalenco opens the season with 50 years of Bernina Cable
Valmalenco Church is celebrating 50 years of the first cable car to the Palu with the opening of many of the facilities of the district: chairlift Motta, Campolungo and Spring. Snow cover from 20 to 50 cm.
Off tomorrow, as well as at the conference "How to feed the mountain," even the two days of freestyle, moguls specialties, the circuit "Supercontinental Cup", with the most ; athletes in this discipline.
was back in December of 1961 when thanks to the subscriptions of hundreds of members of the FAB Malenchini, lifts the Bernina, laid the groundwork for the ski resort of Alpe Palu and laid the fundamentals to become the town of Church Valmalenco Caspoggio and Lanzada one of the most popular tourist centers Lombardi.
were more than 700 subscribers, thanks to which the project could take off the FAB, including Franco Vismara, the industrial sausages Casatenovo, that the Church had a building where seasoned hams, made by his father during the War to prevent the deportation of its workers.
It is said that a Mr. Bissi of Milan had started to collect funds, but when the work was at the start, the stock market played a large part of the capital, he lost it and took to his legs. So Malenchini savers, remained in canvas breeches, Cavalier Vismara asked to help. Thanks to him, the ski area was completed, but since the members were gone, the company became in practice a family business, the entrepreneur bought Monza in a short time the Grand Hotel Malenco.
"We wanted to expand the area with other plants, but there were never enough funds - says Franco Vismara, son of 'entrepreneur - Unfortunately we are not in a province with special status, as the neighbors of Trentino Tyrol, or we would have already completed a connection with St. Moritz ski. "Not if the facility was called the Bernina Cable: even then it suggested a link with neighboring Switzerland. Today, the area of ​​Valmalenco
hosts 250,000 guests every year, 60 km of tracks, a track designed by Gustav Thoeni breathtaking. Here is one of the world's largest cable cars that exceed disloivello more than a kilometer. Here is the first chair lift in the corners made in Italy. And with the arrival of the first snowfall, the ski area of ​​Alpe Palu hosts many international events, the FIS Freestyle Ski Supercontinental Cup (16-17 December 2011), the event at the FIS Snowboard World Cup (March 12 to 18 2012), the FIS Freestyle Ski World Juniors (19 to 25 March) and, thereafter, the Italian Championships of Snowboarding (2 to 6 April), for an expected 1,500 athletes from over 35 countries. No less important, of great social and athletic skills you can certainly skip the National Championships FIS Ski and Fund DIR dedicated to the intellectually disabled in Valmalenco who will return after the success of last year, from March 29 to April 1. A fact that speaks volumes about how, after 50 years, Valmalenco is capitalizing on experience and ability to attract tourism and competitions for the highest level, which consolidated national and international reference.
Saturday, December 17th will be held in Valmalenco the celebration of 50 years of FAB. Those who decide to join the team and take part in the event Neveitalia are scheduled tastings, musical entertainment, toasts, conventions and entertainment.
The complete program of the event:
FRIDAY
'December 16th
From 10.00 to 13.00
Alpe Palu
Supercontinental cup: Moguls
at 18.00
Via S. John Piazza Lanzada arrival of the Parade of Flags
Church - Banda
Union - Athletes of the sports associations of Valmalenco
at 18.30
Church Square - Lanzada < br> Awards Ceremony race
50 years of cable car to the Bernina
Presentation Contest at 18.45
Church Square - Lanzada
Aperitif offered by traders Piazza
Lanzada
Saturday, December 17 from 10.00 to 13.00
Alpe Palu '
Supercontinental Cup dual moguls
13.00
Alpe Palu' < br> Awards Ceremony At 15.00
Center Church Services Valmalenco
As you feed the mountain
Conference / Roundtable
At 17.30
Valmalenco Church Service Centre / Terrace * Cable
Valtellina's Happy Hour
* place to be determined in accordance with weather conditions
Hours 20.00
Sports Hall
Pizzocchero
Together in collaboration with the Academy Pizzocheri the musical entertainment of Teglio
Ore 22.00
Fireworks
From 22.00
Sports Hall
Mulled wine in collaboration with schools slopes of Valmalenco
Information: Tourist Office
Sondrio Valmalenco
Tel +39 0342 451150 - +39 0342 219246 - info@sondrioevalmalenco.it
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