We are a mother & son (21) pair from Seattle looking for some skiing, soccer, food, live music and sightseeing in Italy &/or Southern Switzerland for 2 weeks in early March. We are flying into Milan MXP and will need to book a connection to Dublin to return home from either Venice, Milan, Rome or Geneva. We like architecture, but are not really art museum people. As this is my son's 1st trip to Europe, we would like a variety of different authentic experiences. Ground transportation appears more time consuming than expected, as few if the ski areas have train stations. Looking for advice on ski accomodations, ground transportation to Breuil-Cervina, and which cities to package together (Lugano? Turin? Venice?). Also if there are any interesting factory tours in this region.
Posted by
Green Bay
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To get to Breuil Cervinia, take the train from Torino Porta Nuova station to Ivrea then connect to a train to Chatillon-Saint Vincent. Connect there to a bus to Breuil-Cervinia. Most convenient train would be the 7:28 am departure, arriving Chatillon at 9:09 to the connecting bus at 9:20, arriving Cervinia bus station at 10:20. Return bus at 5:15 pm, arrive Chatillon at 6:15, then train back to Torino at 6:47 pm arriving Torino Porta Nuova at 8:32 pm.
Actual train schedules at https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html and bus schedule at https://www.cervinia.it/file/11443 (blue schedule on the last pages of the pdf). Train tickets are 8.45 EUR each way. Don't know the bus cost off hand, but it should not be much (less than 5 EUR).
Torino F.C. is playing Udinese on March 9 at 6:45 pm. They play at Stadio Olympico. Take the No 4 tram from Porta Nuova station. Remember to take your passport to the game, must have legal ID to get in the stadium.
Juventus is playing AC Milan on March 4 at 8:45 pm at Allianz Stadium. I mention this but Juventus tickets can be hard to come by.
Posted by
Italy
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I really hoped there was a sport called Skiing soccer that mixed the worst of both...
Torino's tickets will be very easy to find, mostly because they are playing so badly this season that the stadium could be half empty.
Going from both train stations to the Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino is very easy.
Posted by
Green Bay
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More info for Breuil-Cervinia, including lift prices, hotels are at
https://www.cervinia.it/en/inverno/home-breuil-cervinia
If you are staying there for a few days and the weather looks favorable, get the combined Cervinia-Zermatt lift pass so you can ski over the pass into Switzerland. Also take the Half Board option that includes breakfast and dinner. This is a good value and being that this is Italy, very tasty. I see that lift prices are reduced beginning Mar 9.
Other ski area near Torino are Sauze d'Oulx, above the train station at Oulx. Also Bardonecchia, just before the tunnel into France. Both have train stations and frequent regional trains to Torino, about 1 1/2 hours away.
I don't think Fiat has any factory tours, but there is a National Auto Museum, and the old Fiat assembly plant in the Lingotto neighborhood that has a test track on the roof. I believe it is now a shopping mall/entertainment complex.