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Bormio
is great, especially if skiing and being in
Europe is new to you. This
is about to be your first ski foray into Europe,
and someone has told you that Italy is very good
value at the moment. So far so good. But you
want to visit the real Italy. You want to prowl
the old streets, eat at real Tratorias, drink
red wine with the locals.
At the same time
you really do not want to surrender your
creature comforts. After all you have worked
long and hard to be able to take the time to
enjoy this holiday, and you really are not
interested in roughing it.
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Try Bormio The resort is neatly divided into an "old
town" and a "new town" and each in its own right should
deliver exactly what you feel you might be looking for.
Bormio in Italy's Sondrio province is a unique
combination of the old and the new. It is a mountain
town at the foot of Passo Stelvio, which, by the way, is
open to skiers and cars only in summer. The old town
which is where the majority of shopping and some of the
hotels are located, still retains much of its magical
Italian charm and way of life.
Meanwhile in the newer part of town close to the ski
lifts to Bormio two and three thousand, the place almost
has a purpose-built aura about it.
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What it lacks in style, however, it more than
makes up for in convenience. However the old town is
where you will best get a taste of true Italian life,
especially in the evenings. Here, a maze of small lanes
zig and zag in all directions from the main street, and,
especially around five o'clock in the evening, hordes of
Italians can be seen doing exactly what Italians love to
do so much; namely put on some nice clothes and walk up
and down the street primarily for the benefit of the
other Italians who are doing precisely the same thing.
It's traditional you see. But you are interested in
Bormio for a ski holiday, aren't you? Well consider
this.
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