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Visited Les Arcs 1600 in March and December 2007/8 season The Village Arc 1600 was one of the first purpose built ski resorts in the Alps and it benefits from the dreams of those early visionaries. The resort is compact. It has a single car free main street with shops off both sides and a public square lined with shops and restaurants facing a bandstand which hosts open air events in the spring and summer. The buildings fit into the landscape; unless you know it is almost invisible…

A large sprawling resort. One of the older resorts it does not have the walkways you get with the newer custom built resorts. Getting about is not a problem though as there is the usual free bus that runs about every twenty minutes through out the resort. There are plenty of shops and bars, a good outdoor ice skating rink which is 4 euros with your ski pass, a excellent outdoor swimming pool free with your ski pass and good indoor swimming pool also free with your ski pass at the large…

During our third trip there in January on the trot, Leogang again delivered in spades during the annual friends get-together. Early January sees two highly entertaining weekends in the village – the Ice Speedway and an old timers traditional wooden ski equipment World Championships . The latter is an excuse for enthusiastic Austrians to dress up in tweed or loden jackets and old leather buckled ski boots and then strap on dodgy-looking prehistoric pointed planks and hurtle…