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( 0165 4 45 93;
www.hotelturin.it
; Via Torino 14; s/d €52/84; )
A modern, boxy glass-and-
steel affair, the Turin is a handy suitcase-drag from the train station and a short distance to
carry your gear to the cable car.
Hotel Le Pageot
HOTEL
€€
( 0165 3 24 33;
www.lepageot.info
;
Via Giorgio Carrel 31; s/d €70/110; )
Next to the bus
stop, the no-frills, family-run and clean Le Pageot will suit hikers and skiers on a budget
even if it doesn't win any architectural or interior design awards.
Hotel Milleluci
( 0165 4 42 74;
www.hotelmilleluci.com
;
Loc Porossan 15; r €170-220; )
Old wooden
skis, traditionally carved wooden shoes, claw-foot baths, indoor and outdoor pools,
Jacuzzi, sauna and gym, and sumptuous breakfasts make this large, family-run converted
farmhouse seem more like a palace. Set on a hillside its balconied rooms look out to the
eponymous 'thousand lights' twinkling from Aosta below.
LUXURY HOTEL
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Eating
Traditional dishes include
seupa valpellinentze
(a thick soup of cabbage, bread, beef broth
and
fontina
) and
carbonada con polenta
(soup traditionally made with chamois, though
these days usually beef). Open-air cafe terraces spring up on Piazza Chanoux in summer.
Osteria del Calvino
(Via Croix de Ville 24; meals $18-25; noon-2.30pm & 7-10.15pm Tue-Sun)
This three-floor wine
bar, restaurant and pizzeria delivers the goods on all fronts thanks to congenial service and
good, simple food.
PIZZERIA
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Trattoria Aldente
( 0165 19 45 96; Via Croce de Ville 34; meals €26-28; noon-2.30pm & 7-10.30pm)
Al dente
pasta is guaranteed in this bistro-like trattoria , whose alluring menu of Valdostan and
wider Italian dishes is enhanced by an equally alluring interior (the back seating section
resembles a cozy cave on snowy days).
VALDOSTAN, ITALIAN
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