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Sestriere Sestriere is an alpine village in Italy, a comune (municipality) of the Province of Turin. It is 17 km (11 miles) from the French border. Sestriere is a popular skiing resort; during the winter holidays the population goes up to about 20,000 people. Together with the villages of Claviere, Sauze d'Oulx, Cesana Torinese and San Sicario, and Mongenèvre in France, it makes up the Via Lattea (Milky Way) skiing area. Sestriere is connected to 146 skiable pistes, for a total of up to 400 km of trails, of which 120 are provided with artificial snow. Sestriere is also one of the few facilities where it is possible to ski at night on a floodlit run. It regularly hosts Alpine Ski World Cup events, and it hosted the World Championships in 1997; it was a main venue during the 2006 Winter Olympic Games and the 2006 Winter Paralympics, hosting all the men's alpine skiing competitions and being the site of one of the three Olympic Villages. In summer it is possible to play golf on Europe's highest 18-hole course. It is also a famous starting and arrival point in the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia. The two hotel towers, one of which was part of the Olympic Village, were built in the 1930s by FIAT's founder Giovanni Agnelli, and have become the symbol of the village; these were the first buildings of the village. The municipal district of Sestriere is in the region/district of Piedmont and it's in the province of Torino. the postcode is 10058 and the code number is +39 0122. Inhabitants are 838 and the surface is about 25 km2, with a density of population about 33 people for km2. Distance: from Rome 565 km, from Florence 371 km and from Venice 430 km.
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