Tignes Val Claret
Tignes Val Claret is the highest of the five villages that make up the Tignes – Val d'Isère, Tignes Ski resort, sitting at 2,100 metres. It is the resort's newest village, built mainly in the 1960s as demand grew for skiing in the resort of Tignes. Like many resorts built at this time, Tignes Val Claret was constructed primarily as a ski resort. The resort also offers tourism-based activities in the Summer, notably glacial skiing, mountain biking, golf and hiking. Overview After deliberate flooding to prepare for a new damn, Tignes Val Claret was the last of the newly-built villages to be erected. It sits at the farthest end of Tignes and is also the highest of the five villages. Like the other towns that make up Tignes, Val Claret also consists of different hamlets; the skiing hub Val Claret Grande Motte, Val Claret Centre and the stand-alone Chalet, chalets in the Les Chartreux area, adjacent to the main town. Skiing The town, due to its purpose-built nature, off ...
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Tignes – Val D'Isère
Tignes – Val d'Isère is the combined ski resort area of Val d'Isère and Tignes in the Tarentaise Valley, Savoie in the French Alps. Formerly known as Espace Killy, in honour of the spectacularly successful skier Jean-Claude Killy who was raised here.There are claimed to be 300 km of pistes: * 22 green runs, 61 blues, 46 reds and 25 blacks, plus 44 km of cross country skiing * 2 terrain parks * 2 glaciers * 90 ski lifts References

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