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Skiing in the Pyrenees
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A full list of skiing accommodation available in the Pyrenees region can be found here.

The gentle slopes of the Pyrenees are the perfect place to enjoy family skiing for the first time.
Compared to the Alps the risk of avalanches or falling into a crevasse is minimal.
Snowboarding is well catered for in virtually all the resorts of the Pyrenees.

Resorts

Font-Romeu - one of Europe’s oldest winter resorts and a perfect base for beginners and families. Font Romeu attracts skiers from Spain as well as France. It has the biggest snow-making operation in the Pyrenees. Most of the local runs are short and flat.

‘Les Neiges Catalanes Area’ incorporates 10 ski stations on one pass and includes the ski resorts of Font Romeu, Err Puigmal, Eyne, Formigueres, Les Angles, Pyrenees 2000, St Pierre del Forcats and Porte Puymorens.

Cambre D’Aze - is a single pass resort with 35km of runs and guaranteed snow due to 164 snow guns.
Cambre D’Azez is ideal for novices with 2 special beginners areas incorporating 8 green runs with very gentle lifts. This resort offers peaceful skiing on tree-lined pistes with a lack of queues. Intermediate skiers will be challenged by the narrower pistes with a variety of gradients.
There is a small park set aside for snowboarders.
Other than skiing there is snowshoe hire, horse riding, thermal baths, swimming, skating, bowling, cinemas, casinos and dog sledding.

Puigmal 2600 - a resort with long black runs plunging down the mountainside.

Porte Puymorens - is a typical Catalan mountain village offering family skiing for all levels on well prepared wide slopes.

Les Angles - nearest to Mont-Louis this is the area’s largest and most advanced ski resort with 32 pistes of which more than half are red runs.

Surrounded by forests and lakes this resort has many other activities to offer.

Formigueres - is ideal for cross-country skiing where you can discover little-known valleys and spectacular views.

Puyvalador - including off piste skiing along panoramic trails through a huge forest in completely natural surroundings facing the Puy Valador lake.

A full list of self catering and bed and breakfast accommodation available in the Languedoc Roussillon region can be found here.

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