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    Bicicò

    The mountain itself offers good biking trails as well as walking opportunities (it takes about four hours to walk from Stresa to the top). Bicicò rents out mountain bikes at the lower Stresa cable-car station. Rates include a helmet and road book detailing a 25km panoramic descent (about three hours, of which only about 30 minutes require slight ascents, thus making it accessible to pretty much anyone who can ride a bike) from the top of Mottarone back to Stresa. A one-way trip with a bike on the cable car to Alpino/Mottarone costs €7/10.

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  2. Milky Way

    Neither a chocolate bar nor a galaxy of stars, Piedmont’s Milky Way (Via Lattea) consists of two parallel valleys just west of Turin that offer top-notch skiing facilities. The more northern of the two, Valle di Susa, meanders past a moody abbey, the old Celtic town of Susa and pretty mountain villages. Its southern counterpart, the Valle di Chisone, is pure ski-resort territory. The valleys hosted many events at the 2006 Winter Olympics – including alpine skiing, freestyle skiing and bobsleigh – and the facilities and infrastructure are state-of-the-art.

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  3. Artviva

    Marketed as ‘The Original & Best Walking Tours of Florence’, these excellent one- to three-hour walks of the city (€25 to €39) are led by historians or art history graduates; walks include a Classic Walk (€25, three hours) and an Evening Walk/Murder Mystery Tour (€30, two hours).

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