offers thrilling opportunities both for exciting active holidays and relaxing breaks. Thanks to its geographical position, favourable climate and human-scale and environmentally-friendly accommodation facilities, Tarvisio is a high-quality international tourist resort able to offer a wide range of sports activities both for beginners and experts at any time of the year. Many sports are offered during the summer, ranging from traditional activities as fishing, tennis, football, to more adventuresome ones, like climbing, mountain bike, paragliding, dry canyoning. The upper course of the Isonzo river and several lakes, among them Lake Raibl, offer possibilities for many water sports, such as windsurfing, canyoning, rafting, hydrospeed, kayaking, tubing. In winter, cross-country skiers can explore countless trails, which cover 60 km between Camporosso and Tarvisio alone! Lovers of ski tourism, downhill skiing and snowboarding can discover a boundless district including the areas of Passo Pramollo-Nassfeld with 101 km of slopes and Sella Nevea. The latter is situated in a unique landscape surrounded by the Canin and Montasio mountain ridges where, starting from the 2008-2009 season, the Italian skiing facilities are going to be connected with the Slovenian ones in Plezzo, thus confirming Tarvisio as the first across-the-border town of Italy's North-East. In addition, the area offers well-marked hiking trails for year-round trips through breathtaking landscapes, and the possibility of snowshoeing, horse-riding and horse-drawn sledge rides.

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a relaxing holiday. The Golf & Country Club is well connected and located at an altitude of 800 metres a.s.l. at the foot of the rocky peaks of Mangart and the Julian Alps, surrounded by the lush scenery of the Tarvisio Forest; it is an extremely picturesque and technically challenging golf course with spacious fairways and stunning views. The course covers 24 hectares and features wide greens, some of which are flat, others marked by slopes, bunkers and hollows, and a lush vegetation, ensuring thrilling and challenging matches even to expert players.
Thanks to the privileged position of Domina Home Golf & Ski, 10 other golf courses can be reached within a 100-km radius to spend memorable days on the greens of Austria, Slovenia, Italy, meeting new friends and discovering new picturesque landscapes. For further information:
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and treatment, several famous spas are within a short distance, with offers ranging from spa baths to wellness treatments up to rehabilitation therapies. The Austrian Warmbad-Villach spa, located not far from Tarvisio, is famous for its peculiar pool built 550 years ago and for the 40 million litres of water gushing every day from the depths of the earth at a temperature of 29.5°C. Another spa, Bad Bleiberg, lies close to Villach as well, featuring an indoor and an outdoor pool, Turkish bath, Finnish and herb sauna, and several treatments for the wellbeing of body and mind. Terme di Arta is a spa situated in Italy at a distance of 70 km from Tarvisio. Surrounded by the relaxing and pristine scenery of the Carnic Alps, where the pure and healthy air helps recover from daily stress, the guests of Terme di Arta (Udine) can enjoy the wholesome effects of the mineral water flowing out of the Pudia spring, known and used since ancient times.

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of history, culture and traditions marking this region. Four are the summer events with food and wine, folklore and music celebrating the overcoming of borders among local populations: International Alpine Meeting at Passo Pramollo in June, Friendship Festival of Goriane (near Tarvisio), and Friendship Festival Friuli-Carinthia at Passo Pramollo in August, and, to close the season, the Friendship Festival of Monte Forno-Dreiländereck-Pec in Fusine. No Borders Music Festival is a music event that takes place in Tarvisio in July and hosts some among the best artists of the international music scene. Golf Challenge of Champions, Tarvisio, August: international golf competition organized at the Tarvisio Golf Club. The event celebrates the golf-winter sports match and the international love for sports, starring the best golf players of the Alpe Adria Area and Italian, Austrian and Slovenian snow and ice champions.
Festa di San Nicolò, Val Canale, December: a feast celebrating Saint Nicholas with his monstrous assistant, the Krampus, filling the village alleys with an evocative and charming atmosphere.
Ein Prosit in Tarvis, December, food and wine event: 150 food and wine producers set up an exhibition-tasting party of their specialties at Palazzo Veneziano in Malborghetto. This appointment is accompanied by several other events throughout the area, dinners and meetings offering opportunities for a closer look at this region's rich world of taste.

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