LEISURE
In Saint Pierre you can find cafés, ice-cream parlours, traditional
restaurants, grocer’s, shops of handmade and typical products,
two banks, a chemist’s, a confectioner’s, an ironmonger’s,
a newsagent’s, hairdressers, mechanics, etc…
In the summer, you can enjoy a country walk, you can visit the castle
and go to mountain huts. Nearby, you can go rafting, canoeing, kayaking,
you can have a try at hydrospeed, rock climbing, horseriding, archery,
you can play bowls or go to the disco. 20 km away from here you
can also heliski, play golf, go paragliding and gliding.
In the winter, you can cross-country ski even at night in Saint
Nicolas, 4 km away from Saint Pierre. In a few minutes you can reach
the most important ski resorts; it takes you 20 minutes to go to
Valsavarenche and to Val di Rhêmes, where you can also cross-country
ski; it takes 25 minutes to be on the pistes in Pila or Courmayeur
to enjoy downhill skiing and snowboarding. In 35 minutes you can
be in La Thuile, in Val Ferret and Val Veny. It takes 45 minutes
to reach Cogne, 35 minutes to reach Cervinia and 60 minutes to be in
Champoluc.
In any month, festivals are organized in
several villages in Aosta Valley. On June 29th, you can join in
the patron saint festival in Saint Pierre, where you can taste
local dishes and wines, enlivened by music and games for everybody.
On August 10th, there is “Brindisi sotto le stelle”
(Toast under the stars), where the Middle Ages and oenogastronomy
join together during this gourmet experience. The lords of “Sancto
Petro” and of “Sarriod de la Tour” are glad
to invite you to the evening with a tour round the castle, the
museum, with a tasting of local wines and products, with a dance
ball. Besides, in several villages of the region you can watch
the “Batailles des Reines” (typical cow fight), you
can go to the fiocca (cream) festival in Avise, to the Jambon
(ham) festival in Bosses, to the apple festival in Gressan, to
the grape festival in Nus, to the “Seuppa alla Vapelenentse”
festival in Valpelline, to the “Veillà” in
Cogne, to the “Fëta a l’ano” (Donkey festival)
in Ollomont, to the lard festival in Arnad and to many others.
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