One mountain, two countries.
We sit in Valtournenche, high where Italy leans on Switzerland. From the door, one pass links 360 km of pistes — up through Cervinia, over the glacier, and down into car-free Zermatt under the far side of the Matterhorn.
Cervinia · Italy
The villageValtournenche
Our village — a quiet, characterful old commune strung along the valley below the Matterhorn. Stone houses, a handful of bars, a church bell, and the cable car that lifts you toward Cervinia. It's where the noise of everywhere else stops and the mountain takes over.
The resortBreuil-Cervinia
A short hop up the road, Cervinia is where the linked ski area really opens up — high, sunny, snow-sure pistes that run right under the Matterhorn's Italian face, and the gateway onto the glacier and across the border. Long cruising runs in winter, summer skiing on the Plateau Rosa glacier above.
SwitzerlandZermatt
Cross the Theodul on the glacier and you drop into Switzerland and car-free Zermatt — the Matterhorn from its north side, the Gornergrat railway, and glacier runs that seem to go on forever. Ski over for lunch and a different country, then ride the lifts back to Italy before the last chair.
Ski from Italy into Switzerland and back.
One pass covers the whole Cervinia–Zermatt area. Climb from the village over the Plateau Rosa glacier, drop down the Swiss side to Zermatt, and ride home before the last chair.
It's even better in motion.
Fresh snow, summer trails and the view from the table — see what guests are sharing from the valley.
