Courmayeur: what to do, what to see, where to eat

Mountain style houses, narrow streets all around the main street full of cafes and shops. 

Via Roma is the pulsating center of Courmayeur.

A romantic town, especially when the walk is in the evening with the soft lights of the street lamps and the snow-capped mountains that shine under the rays of the moon.

Admire the view that you can enjoy from Abbè Henry Square and take some nice pictures.

visit the Alpine Museum Duke of Abruzzi, a few steps from Piazza Abbè Henry, for mountaineering and non-mountaineering enthusiasts, where you can admire the finds of the conquests of Courmayeur's mountain guides all over the world from the North Pole to the Himalayas.

when it comes to Pantaleone Church, from the first half of the eighteenth century, you can admire an altar carved in a single block of stone, a beautiful wooden crucifix, an ex voto on canvas from 1704 and an organ with excellent acoustics used for summer concerts.

visit the Malluquin tower only remnant of the fourteenth-century Malluquin castle. It is in Piazza Petigax, now home to exhibitions, the ancient measures used in the Aosta Valley are engraved on the outside.

you can take a tour of Shopping in the shops of the center, where you will find many famous brands and taste something in the countless cafes, bars, pastry shops and ice cream parlors.

relax at Park Stamp, ideal for a stopover while admiring the surrounding landscape. The park is clean and well maintained with drinking fountains, neat walkways and public restrooms, there are many green spaces where you will see people engaging in various yoga and fitness activities. The route starts from Via Roma and continues upwards where there is an area with fun games for children, with pulleys and buildings on which to climb.

Ithe Courmayeur Mountain Cinema (Palanoir) is a pleasant alternative on days when the weather is not at its best. Watch a movie in its two rooms with 434 and 120 seats with comfortable armchairs and covered parking (for a fee). You will find it in Piazzale Monte Bianco 3, next to the Congress Center Tel. +39 0165 843726 The program can be seen on the Facebook page of the Courmayeur Cinema. For information contact palanoir@gmail.com via email 

Courmayer has the lively nightlife of a town full of tourists 10 months a year!

Not just classic discos like THE CLUB Courmayeur, the largest connected to the Milanese nightlife (same management of the place of the same name), the Club House 80's is an elegant chalet in the town center, ideal for drinks and music, but also places where drinks and music are the main ingredients for your aperitifs such as  Le Prive cocktail bar open until 2 am.

Almost all the nightlife, which lasts until dawn, is concentrated in the main street, via Roma, where many clubs organize street party ie outdoor music. 

The street turns into a big nightclub every night where fun winds through Courmayeur with music, laughter and dancing under the starry sky and the mountains.

Shortly after the closure of the lifts Courmayer lights up. You can enjoy anything from spritz to champagne, but maybe you should try a glass of Mont Blanc wine: the Blanc de Morgex et de la Salle, directly from one of the highest vineyards in Europe!

Among the best known places for the Apres Sky is Bar Rome in the center, on two floors with buffet aperitifs and that in the evening for the younger ones it offers disco music; or the Post coffee, historic place, very popular with over 30s. For those who want more tranquility, the Cafè Relais de l'Ange, elegant and refined.

Still in via Roma, at 43 we find theAmerican Bar where, in addition to dinners including pizza, burgers and crepes, you can enjoy aperitifs and herbal teas or sip beer, wines, grappa and cocktails.