Crans-Montana Attractions

10km/6mi northeast of Montana is Aminona (1,437 m/4,415ft), a popular winter sports resort with a group of hotels, from which there is a cabin cableway 2,410 m/7,907ft long to the Petit-Mont-Bonvin (2,411 m/7,910ft: numerous ski-lifts). Access to the pistes of Crans-Montana is via the Violettes, La Tza and La Barma.

The mountain station of Anzère, separated from the deep valley of the Lienne, lies about 8km/5mi west of Crans. This modern village, with its typical large chalets, is surrounded by excellent long-distance courses and pistes of varying levels of difficulty.

This popular annual festival takes place in mid-July.

This annual festival takes place in mid-August.

This annual festival takes place in early August.

The popular mountain and winter sports resort of Montana (1,500 m/4,922ft), 1.5km/1mi to the east of Crans-sur-Sierre on Lac Moubra, lies on a natural terrace covered with forests and Alpine meadows 1,000 m/3,281ft above the Rhône valley, sheltered by the mountains to the north, and has a mild, dry mountain climate. A cableway 540 m/1,772ft long climbs in three minutes to the Grand Signal (upper station 1,712 m/5,617ft), from which there are ski-lifts to Verdet (1,875 m/6,152ft) and the Cry d'Err. Another cableway, 2,500 m/8,203ft long, runs up in 12 minutes to the Cry d'Err (2,263 m/7,425ft: restaurant).

Above Montana, 1.5km/1mi north, is Vermala (1,670 m/5,479ft), with a ski-jump. From Vermala-Zaumiau a cableway 2,545 m/8,350ft long goes up via Les Marolires to the Swiss Alpine Club's Cabane des Violette (2,208 m/7,244ft: restaurant), from which another cableway (3,243 m/10,640ft long) continues to the Plaine Morte (2,927 m/9,603ft), above the south end of the Plaine Morte glacier (summer skiing).