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VenueHotelsHow to reach Sestriere

Sestriere town rises up to 2035 metres altitude and links the Chisone and Susa valleys in Piedmont, only a few kilometres from France. It spreads onto a surface of 2580 hectares with 900 inhabitants at December 31st 2008.

Sestriere consists of four built up areas: Sestriere Colle, Sestriere Borgata, Champlas du Col and Champlas Janvier. Sestriere is historically renowned for its international tourism and is a sure reference point as it has time again been selected to stage important sporting events such as the Alpine Ski World Championships in 1997 and the Olympic Winter Games in 2006 together with the Paralympic Games.

It is at the heart of the extensive Vialattea ski area that offers skiers the possibility to link to five other ski resorts making a total of 400 km of slopes, many of them are artificially snowed and with ski-lifts and chair lifts for disabled.

For the joy of mountain lovers, the Monterotta area offers a 10 km cross-country track and in front of the ski lifts you can ice skate in the open air rink.

More information can be found on http://www.comune.sestriere.to.it/default_e.asp

The conference will be held at Ròseo Hotel, Via Sauze di Cesana 3/B - 10058 - Sestriere, Italy (www.roseohotelsestriere.com). Ròseo Hotels Sestriere will offer special room prices to the conference participants, especially to those wishing to extend the stay beyond the conference period at the same cost as in the conference period.

A limited number of rooms will be offered at these prices:

Other hotels will be offered later on.

The Val of Susa is crossed by the axle international railway linking Rome-Paris. The trains are very frequent and all stop to the railway station of Oulx. The Turin-Pinerolo line is also well served. Information: www.trenitalia.it.

Buses connect Oulx with Sestriere and Turin with Sestriere via Pinerolo.
Information: SAPAV www.sapav.it Tel: +39 800801901 or +39 0115699803

You can take the direct bus from Porta Nuova railways station in Turin to Sestriere on the corner of Corso Vittorio Emanuele II and Via Sacchi (the bus company is called SAPAV).

The highway A32 unites Turin with Bardonecchia (95km). The exit of Oulx takes you to Sestriere in 22km. Or, alternatively the highway Turin – Pinerolo. Then you continue along S.R. 23 to Sestriere.

From the international airport in Turin Caselle, Sestriere is reached in a few hours. A frequent bus shuttle connects the Airport of Turin-boxes with the Station FS Porta Nuova. Information: Aeroporto di Caselle www.aeroportoditorino.it, tel. +39 011 5676362

Other airport: the two Airports in Milan Malpensa and Linate are far away from Turin around 140 km. Information: www.sea-aeroportimilano.it, tel. +39 02 74851