Ponte di Legno

This is one of the oldest ski stations in Italy but also a famous summer resort throughout the Alps. Its position is splendid on a sunny plateau at 1260 m above sea-level overlooked by the Adamello range. The historic centre is very picturesque, there is a lively little square, many pubs, restaurants, shops and local handcraft workshops.
There is no end of things to see in the surrounding country: Case di Viso, Pezzo, Canè,Vescasa and S. Apollonia with their stone houses; the Val Grande and the Valle delle Messi, the lakes of Montozzo, Avio and Aviolo with their unspoilt countryside, flowers and animals;
and the Parks of Adamello and Stelvio for climbers and walkers.
For sportsmen there is ountaineering, jogging in the woods, mountain-biking, horse-riding, tennis, archery, summer skiing on the Presena glacier, golf on the 9- hole course at Valbondione, 1500 metres high, and fishing in the rivers. In winter Ponte di Legno is a well equipped resort with pistes for all levels of skier and has artificial snow, cross-country skiing, connection to the Pass at Tonale to make up a single ski area, ice-skating, swimming pools, discotheques and games rooms.