Beautiful 1 to 3 Bedrooms Chalet Apartments in Auron. Auron is right in the middle of a majestic cirque of high mountains (at an altitude of 2450 metres) and in the winter offers 132 km of ski runs. In summer, hundreds of kilometres of footpaths weav through spruces, pines and larches.
Auron has four skiing areas (Demandols, Sauma Longue, Las Donnas and Lieuson) and together with Isola 2000 is one of the areas sunniest and most popular ski resorts.
Price range from 184,000 to 246,000 Euros
Auron was founded at the beginning of the thirties. It has a superb chapel dedicated to St Érige built from dressed stone, with a Romanesque bell tower and timber lath roofing, typical of the Alps (inside are some remarkable wall paintings). The tourist office is also housed in a fine stone building with a shingle roof.
The rest of Auron consists of very smart chalet buildings with wooden balconies, where you will easily find accommodation, as well as numerous restaurants with terraces, where you can enjoy the high altitude sunshine
The summer is hiking season, through meadows and forests where you will have the opportunity to admire ibexes, chamois deer, marmots, buzzards, hawks, etc. as well as 2,000 species of different flowers, 25 of which are very rare indeed !
The building: constructed in the 1960s, concrete masonry and stone, framework and joinery made from wood from the locality, all work done by Savoyard craftsmen. The insulation and pre-lacquered cover have been entirely redone. The wooden balconies have also recently been remade
Electricity: low current, recently rewired
Heating: Central, with new collective boilers and drainage
Gangways and railings: Freshly painted and re-floored December 2002
Ceilings: Suspended ceilings, flagstones, fitted carpets
Lift: from ground to third floor
Apartments
Soundproofing: between the apartments. Insulating door windows and windows, doors onto firebreak corridors
Bathrooms: Bath or shower, basin, mirror, we, air-conditioning ventilation
Suspended ceiling, white floor tiling, central heating radiators
Ski Area:
132 km of slopes over 4 areas
Las Donnas - Sauma Longue - Demandols - Lieuson
40 slopes including 8 black, 17 red, 13 blue and 2 green
20 ski lifts
3 telepherics - 10 chair lifts - 12 skitows
Total length: 23,000 m
Total difference in altitude: 7,000 m
Capacity per hour: 20.000 skiers/hour |