Sierra Nevada - Winter Sports

From November to June the Sierra Nevada offers magnificent facilities for winter sports, and as the most southerly winter sports region in Europe usually has a blue sky and brilliant sunshine as well as snow. Throughout the area much effort has been devoted to improving the available facilities, with ski-lifts and ski schools: the existing pistes are constantly supervised and are being extended. In addition to hotels there are numerous mountain huts provided by various skiing and climbing organizations.

The most southernmost ski resort in Europe, Sierra Nevada was the site of the World Alpine Ski Championships in 1996. Because it is so far south there are some years when there is a lack of snow but when it does fall, Sierra Nevada