Tourism Val Cenis

From the 12th century, Col du Mont Cenis is the great thoroughfare to the Piedmont and in 1805, Napoleon built a road (now D1006, ex-National 6), connecting Susa in Italy and Val Cenis Lanslebourg. Already, villagers discovered the beginnings of a winter tourism; experienced smugglers, "the Maroons" hoisted sleds travelers from one side to another Mont-Cenis and invented a technique of sliding, the descent into "Bounce, kind of sledge made of branches.

Another legendary figure in Val Cenis, Flambeau, a dog postman who provided liaison of Mail between Sollières Fort, perched on top of Cold Mountain and the city of Lanslebourg in the 30s. For ten years, every day, summer and winter, at the same time,

Beacon has provided its mission of carrying mailbags. Along the Arc, which winds through the valley in permanent contact with the stream of history, our two villages have learned the taste of the exchange and a sense of welcome.

Since 1967, Lanslebourg Lanslevillard and gathered to form the resort of Val Cenis in the heart of the Haute-Maurienne Vanoise In 2008, Val Cenis created the connection with the ski area to create Termignon Val Cenis Vanoise

Ski area

Alpine skiing

• 55 runs
• 27 lifts
• 125 kilometres of descent

cross-country skiing

• 27 kilometres run