★ Courchevel

01Quand Courchevel matières

Douze mois d'activité calculés à partir des événements figurant au calendrier de cette destination — l'importance de chaque événement est répartie sur les jours qu'il occupe. Les événements à l'origine de chaque mois sont indiqués en regard de la barre.

02Le calendrier ici

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• 7 Feb
  
  Courchevel · France · Festivals culturels ★ Courchevel International Fireworks Festival 23rd edition · February 7, 2027 · 23rd edition Prévu
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Chaque événement du calendrier

Festivals culturels Courchevel International Fireworks Festival Feb 7, 2027

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03Pourquoi c'est important

Courchevel's claim on the calendar rests less on any single event than on its role as the best-known entry point to Les Trois Vallées, skiing's largest connected terrain; being reachable directly by small aircraft, at an altiport more often discussed than actually used, has done as much for the resort's reputation as its skiing. In our reading, Courchevel's origin as a purpose-built, planned resort, rather than a historic town that later added lifts, also explains its four-village structure, which offers noticeably different registers of accommodation - from Le Praz's quiet valley floor to Courchevel 1850's high, purpose-built center - within a few minutes of one another.

04L'année, mois par mois

05Météo par mois

06Comment s'y rendre et se déplacer

07Où se trouvent les choses

Quartiers

Quartiers d'hôtels

Courchevel 1850 holds the resort's highest concentration of hotels directly on the piste, purpose-built rather than converted from an older village. Moriond and Courchevel Village offer progressively lower-altitude, generally less expensive alternatives with their own lift access, and Le Praz, at the valley floor, is the quietest and least expensive of the four.

Quartiers gastronomiques

Each of the four villages has its own restaurant cluster around its lift base, with Courchevel 1850's the largest and busiest; mountain restaurants across Les Trois Vallées operate for lunch service through the ski season.

Institutions culturelles

Commerce

Courchevel 1850 carries the resort's concentration of boutiques, clustered around the village center near the Altiport; the lower villages have more limited, everyday shopping.

08Comment le lieu évolue

Courchevel is almost entirely a winter resort. Its four villages are busiest, in order, over the Christmas and New Year fortnight, the Orthodox Christmas week in early January and the February school-holiday fortnight, with the international fireworks festival running through the same late-winter stretch. Summer brings a small, lower-key season of hiking and mountain biking, well short of winter's scale, and the resort is close to dormant between the two.

09Historique

Courchevel was designed after the Second World War by the planner Laurent Chappis as part of a coordinated plan to develop the Tarentaise valley for skiing, making it, by its own account, the first ski resort in France built from scratch rather than grown around an existing village. Its four villages - Le Praz, Courchevel Village, Moriond and Courchevel 1850 - were built in sequence up the mountainside through the second half of the twentieth century and were not consolidated into a single commune until 2017. Le Praz's ski jumps were built for the 1992 Albertville Winter Olympics. The resort's connection into what became Les Trois Vallées, now marketed as the world's largest linked ski area, was built up gradually as neighboring valleys developed their own lift networks over the same decades.