Florence, Rome, Urbino, Naples, and many other cities are the most popular choices for school trips, yet recently the school ski week has come back into fashion.
Instead of the usual visit to cities of art, students spend a few days or even a whole week in the Alps or the Apennines in search of fun as well as the culture of our dear old mountains, which with their traditions, customs, and heritage can teach even more than museums alone.
Recently, many school groups have been making this choice, which brings students and teachers into agreement; the challenge often remains choosing the right resort, as not all of them are suitable for this kind of holiday. Some are too focused on competitive skiing and ill-suited to the many students who may never have skied before and do not have much time available to learn on difficult slopes; conversely, other resorts lack slopes suitable for large groups due to old lifts or overly short runs, or else offer no alternatives beyond skiing and lack wide open spaces.
Therefore, the essential elements are:
Ski slopes of sufficient length that are not overly demanding.
Wide open spaces for those who do not ski but want to go on hikes or have fun with sledges or bobsleds.
A history rich in tradition and topics to study and learn about.
A destination that brings all of this together at first glance is undoubtedly the Asiago plateau: its history saw it play a major role in the First World War with its fortresses such as Forte Verena, one of Italy’s finest defensive structures at the time, the many fallen soldiers during the war, and then the Second World War, which took young men called to arms away from many families—often forever—sending them to fight on the steppes of freezing Russia.
All these accounts were witnessed and recorded in books by Mario Rigoni Stern, the great writer (the “sergente magiù”—sergeant major) of the Asiago plateau, who recounted in his numerous books his experiences fighting in Russia, his deportation to Nazi prison camps, and the great struggle upon returning home to resume a normal life.
The last great writer of Italian literature, whose books brought untold stories back to memory and whose simple style helped readers appreciate the beauty of nature that can be admired on the Asiago plateau.
Just like in one of his books, *Uomini, boschi e api* (Men, Woods, and Bees), where Rigoni Stern describes the territory of Asiago—an unspoiled place where even today one can spot animal species that have vanished from other mountains, and appreciate the scents and above all the flavors of nature thanks to traditions handed down from father to son and preserved like a precious treasure.
In short, Asiago is a blend of fun, nature, and history!
These are the elements a school looks for so that a trip is neither just entertainment nor just history, but the perfect way to combine both!
Asiago Neve has therefore designed a tailor-made offer for schools—a complete package that lowers prices so that all pupils can afford a holiday in Asiago with their school, offering guided educational trails and on-slope assistance to ski in complete safety with the Asiago ski instructors.
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