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Italy’s peak: skiing in Trentino

Skiing with a difference - it's time for UK skiers to stop overlooking the Italian Dolomites

November 11, 2018 16:30
Trentino (Photo: Pietro Masturzo/Trentino Sviluppo S.p.A)
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There’s a meteorological phenomenon called a capping inversion, creating a thin layer of cloud beneath the mountain tops. The name might not be particularly memorable, but the sight certainly is — and this is my memory of skiing in Paganella, jagged snow-capped peaks of the Italian Dolomites peeking through a sea of cloud.

Made up of five little Italian villages, the Paganella ski region is popular with domestic tourists and visitors from eastern Europe but largely unknown to Brits.

In the northern province of Trentino, just a short drive from the city of Trento, it’s something of a hidden gem for UK skiers.

The colourful houses and restaurants tucked into the hillside are more akin to the chocolate-box ski villages of Austria — there is a lot of shared history here, after all — than the purpose-built resorts of France.