Cimone Mountain Photo: Mount Cimone

Cimone mountain is in the Northern Apennines in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna. The height of the mountain – 2165 meters. On its slopes there are several communes of fiumalbo, which, Sestola, Fanano and Riolunato, which belong to the province of Modena. The surrounding mountains are military installations, so during the Cold War, access to the top was banned.

Today Cimone mountain is a popular ski resort, you can reach from both Modena and Bologna, the benefit of distances in Italy are often measured in tens rather than hundreds of kilometers. There are 31 total ski run length of over 50 km longest run stretches for 3, 6 km away and is Served by highway 26 lifts.

Ski season begins in December, and sometimes even in late November and lasts until mid-April. The resort consists of six centres – Passo del Lupo, polle, Simoncino, Lago Ninfa, Montecreto and Pian del Falco, which are interconnected slopes and lifts.

Among the most popular ski runs – red Nord Funivia length 1, 9 km, black Diretissima length 1, 7 km, and red-black Sette Fontane and Dell'aquila, both 2, 7 km long.

In addition to Alpine skiing on Monte Cimone come and snowboarding fans – for them on the territory of the Passo del Lupo built a huge snow Park with half pipe with a length of 85 meters, two jumps, three "loops", C-boxes, kink-salami etc Two smaller snowpark is situated in Lago Ninfa and the poll.

For vacationers it also has various restaurants, discos, a small theater, gyms, play areas for children, fields for mini-Golf and excursions Cimone.

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Cimone Mountain