Megève
A medieval village the Rothschilds turned into a ski resort in the 1920s, and one of the few French resorts that still looks like a village.
Megève exists as a ski resort because the Rothschild family wanted a French alternative to St. Moritz in the 1920s and built one around an existing medieval village. That origin is still visible: a cobbled centre with a church at its heart, horse-drawn sleighs working the streets, and none of the concrete apartment blocks that define the resorts developed in the 1960s and 70s.
The skiing is broad and mostly gentle, spread over three separate areas with Mont Blanc in view from much of it. Strong skiers looking for steep terrain will find more in Chamonix, forty minutes away; Megève's appeal is the village and the cruising, not the challenge.
Expensive, but visibly so in the restaurants and shops rather than in the lift ticket.
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