Courchevel: Le Praz
Tucked into the Tarentaise Valley in the French Alps, Le Praz is a place whose character is shaped by its wooded mountainside setting and ski-sport infrastructure. This is one of Courchevel’s original settlements, retaining a compact core of Savoyard-style buildings rather than the purpose-built feel of the higher resorts. Its ski-jumping complex was a venue for the 1992 Albertville Winter Olympics, connecting the hamlet to an event staged across the surrounding valleys. Le Praz also sits within the vast Les Trois Vallées ski area, while lifts and runs link it with Courchevel’s other levels. Forested slopes rise directly from the built-up valley floor, giving this part of Courchevel a more grounded, village-scale character.
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Few resorts in the French Alps have a history as closely tied to post-war ski development as Courchevel. Spread above the Tarentaise Valley in Savoie, it forms part of Les Trois Vallées, an extensive interconnected ski domain beneath the Vanoise massif. Courchevel 1850 was created in 1946 as a purpose-built resort, with an early master plan by urbanist Laurent Chappis that distinguished it from older Alpine settlements. Lower down, Le Praz retains a more traditional village character, while lifts and pistes connect the resort with Méribel and Val Thorens. Find related webcams across the Tarentaise Valley to build a fuller picture of Courchevel and its Alpine surroundings.
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