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Alagna Ski Bus – Free shuttle service

Alagna is known as a freeride paradise! Its lifts will take you from the village at 1,212 meters to Punta Indren at 3,275 meters in the heart of Monte Rosa. You can enjoy 180 km of groomed slopes with connections to Gressoney and Champoluc in the Aosta Valley, offering you a unique experience. Every skier can find the route that best suits their tastes and abilities, from the most extreme freeriding to the easiest slopes and courses for beginners.

Enjoy the wonders of this ski resort: reach the Alagna ski lifts easily and comfortably using the free ski bus service!

SHUTTLE SERVICE: free of charge and available from November 29, 2025, to April 19, 2026.

RED LINE: Mollia – Alagna Valsesia

In service every day from November 29, 2025, to April 19, 2026

HOLIDAYS: all weekends between December 6, 2025, and April 19, 2026, Monday, December 8, 2025, every day from December 26, 2025, to January 6, 2026, every day from February 14 to 22, 2026, Monday, April 6, 2026.

WEEKDAYS: all remaining days until the end of service scheduled for April 19, 2026.

Please note: the Partenza Funivie stop is not active and is therefore not served by the shuttle. To reach the departure point of the lifts, use the Piazza degli Alberghi stop and follow the pedestrian route.

*service break 12:30 p.m. | 3:05 p.m.

BLUE LINE: Alagna Valsesia-Loc. Wold.

In service every day from November 29, 2025, to April 19, 2026.

HOLIDAYS: every weekend between December 6, 2025, and March 29, 2026, Monday, December 8, 2025, every day from December 26, 2025, to January 6, 2026, every day from February 14 to 22, 2026, and April 6.

WEEKDAYS: all remaining days until the end of service scheduled for April 19, 2026*.

*Service not available during the following periods:

From March 30, 2026, to April 3, 2026

From April 7 to 10, 2026

From April 13 to 17, 2026

Please note: the Partenza Funivie stop is not in service and is therefore not served by the shuttle. To reach the departure point of the cable cars, use the Piazza degli Alberghi stop and follow the pedestrian route.

*service break 11:52 a.m. | 1:10 p.m.

From December 26, 2025, to January 5, 2026, the free evening shuttle/bus service connecting Alagna to Riva Valdobbia will be back, running every evening from 6:00 p.m. to 11:30 p.m., to facilitate travel between the main towns in the area.

Service frequency

Buses run every 30 minutes.
The service will pause from 9:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Extended service

On the evenings of Tuesday, December 30, and Friday, January 2, the shuttle will run until 12:30 a.m.
On these two dates, the service will pause from 10:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.

Main stops

The shuttle route includes the following stops:

Via Circonvallazione – Loc. Riva (near the Chalet restaurant)

Piazza del Mercato – Riva Valdobbia

Località Miniere (Carrefour Express area)

Piazza degli Alberghi (in front of the church)

Località Wold

Approximate timetable for stops

Via Circonvallazione – Loc. Riva: from 6:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. (every 30 minutes)

Località Wold towards Riva Valdobbia: from 6:15 p.m. to 11:15 p.m. (every 30 minutes)

(On the evenings of December 30 and January 2, additional trips are scheduled until 12:30 a.m.)

Useful information

The shuttle service is free of charge.
Dogs are allowed on board provided they are wearing a muzzle.

From December 12, 2025, to January 9, 2026, there will be a Christmas promotion for two shows of your choice from the Teatro Civico di Varallo theater season: you can purchase two shows of your choice from the next four shows of the 2025/2026 Varallo theater season at a discounted price!

The shows scheduled are:

Sunday, February 1, at 5 p.m., “Cin Ci Là” with @ballettodiparma – @compagniacorradoabbati (not included in the season ticket);

Friday, February 20, at 9 p.m., “Il medico dei maiali” with @lucabizza and @francesco_montanari_official;

Wednesday, March 25 at 9 p.m. “Ma che razza di Otello?” with @marina_massironi;

Sunday, April 12 at 9 p.m. “La Storia” directed by @faustocabra.

For information and reservations: Varallo Civic Library, Via Umberto I n. 69 or online: www.vivaticket.com, @piemontedalvivo, @teatro_civico_varallo

During the Christmas holidays, the Valsesian museums will have different opening hours. Below is the updated calendar with the opening days:

PALAZZO DEI MUSEI: Opening days: December 23, 27, 28, 30, 2025, January 2, 3, 4, 6, 2026.

Opening hours: 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. / 2:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. (last admission at 5:00 p.m.).

The Museum Palace will be closed on December 24, 25, and 26, and January 1. Website: www.palazzodeimusei.it

WALSER MUSEUM IN ALAGNA: Opening days: December 26 to January 5. Opening hours: 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. The Walser Museum in Alagna will be closed

on January 1, 2026. For information and reservations, contact the Alagna Tourist Office: 0163 922988

KREAS MINING MUSEUM: Open only for guided tours: December 28, 2025, and January 3, 2026. For reservations, contact the Alagna tourist office: +39 0163 922988

ANGELO MOSSO SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE: Open only for guided tours: December 30, January 2, January 5, 2026

Would you like to experience the magic of a dinner at high altitude, immersed in the white heart of Valsesia?
Snow-covered woods, stars, and silence: these are just some of the ingredients we offer to make your vacation unforgettable! Add to this the taste of traditional dishes and the warm atmosphere of a mountain hut on the ski slopes, and the experience becomes truly unique. The mountain huts and restaurants, open for the occasion in the evening, await you!

Let yourself be enveloped by the beauty of snow-covered woods under a starry sky, in a silence that will lull you into an unforgettable evening. Are you ready to experience a journey of flavors and sensations? Extend your day on the snow and fully embrace the timeless charm of the winter mountains.

A warm welcome and enveloping hospitality await you in the mountain huts, right on the ski slopes. The opportunity to admire Valsesia at night, embraced by the moonlight and with Monte Rosa as a backdrop, is a gift that awaits you during the winter season.

Experience this magic in two wonderful locations: Pianalunga, on the ski slopes of Alagna Valsesia, and Alpe di Mera di Scopello!

The Alagna-Pianalunga cable car will make one ascent at 7:00 p.m. and one descent at 10:30 p.m. On the evening of December 31, 2024, the descent will take place at 1:00 a.m.

The Scopello-Mera chairlift will make a single uphill trip at 7:00 p.m. and a single downhill trip at 11:00 p.m. *Only for the evening of December 31, the service will not be divided into an uphill and a downhill trip, but will run continuously until 8:00 p.m. On this date, there will be no downhill trip at the end of the event. Return tickets, at a cost of €15.00, can be purchased on the evening of the event at the ticket office in Scopello from 6.30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

The Monterosa Ski Area will open for the 2025/2026 season on Saturday, November 29.
Valsesia is getting ready to welcome all winter sports enthusiasts! Monte Rosa awaits you with exciting slopes, endless views, and that energy that only high altitudes can offer. It’s time to choose your dates and plan a new adventure: here is the complete opening calendar.

From November 29, 2025, to April 19, 2026 (snow conditions permitting), three valleys will welcome you, offering a single, great experience.

Alpe di Mera

From December 20, 2025, to March 22, 2026, every day

December 6, 7, and 8, 2025

Weekend of December 13 and 14, 2025

Visit the official website of the Monterosa Ski Area and find out all the slope openings in real time.

On 20 September, the Association of the Valsesian Puncetto Museum was presented in Varallo, with plans for a museum that will be set up on the ground floor of the Salone dell’Incoraggiamento in the Palazzo dei Musei in Varallo.

The museum will be dedicated to one of the oldest arts and activities in Valsesia, puncetto.

The museum will also offer multimedia aspects.

The Alagna Municipality’s shuttle service returns again this year, taking visitors and hikers to the starting point of some of the most beautiful walks in Valsesia.

Discover the Easter traditions of the province of Vercelli

via crucis – quarona

Since the 1980s, the Via Crucis (Stations of the Cross), a true re-enactment of the Passion of Christ, has been performed in the town of Quarona on Good Friday. The Sacred Representation of Good Friday in Quarona is unique in the province of Vercelli. It was first staged in 1982 and has become more and more popular every year, becoming one of the most popular events in the valley.

The scenes performed, which used to be itinerant in the city, as of 2019 take place in Piazza Silvio Pellico and then move up to the area surrounding the church of San Giovanni al Monte. On the evening of Good Friday, the 18 scenes of the Stations of the Cross are performed.

processione delle sette marie – Varallo

There are no official documents to determine the exact moment when this tradition originated in Varallo. The most accredited hypothesis seems to be the tendency to place this event within the paraliturgical rites of the Passion of the Spanish ancestry, considering the important presence of the Iberian rulers in the Duchy of Milan, to which Valsesia belonged until the beginning of the 18th century.

While during the evening of Good Friday the procession takes place within the town centre, starting from the Collegiate Church of San Gaudenzio to reach the Church of San Giacomo and back, in the afternoon of Palm Sunday the procession departs from the Collegiate Church of San Gaudenzio to reach the impressive Sacro Monte. During the procession seven unmarried women with their faces covered by a black veil form a mournful procession, two of them hold up a third one destined to carry the cross, veiled by a white sheet and deprived of the body of Christ, while the others arrange themselves in a sort of symbolic square. Following the Seven Marys are the members of the Confraternity of the Holy Trinity, dressed in blue tunics and carrying lanterns, and those of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament, who, dressed in red robes, lead the statue of Our Lady of Sorrows in procession.

processione delle macchine – VERCelli

This event originated in 1833, when the processions that were organised by the individual confraternities (which began in the 18th century and were soon regulated by a precise order of appearance) joined that of the Holy Crucifix of Saint Andrew’s Company, which took place in Vercelli on Good Friday.

The so-called ‘machines’ are sculptural groups made from coloured wood representing the various episodes of the Passion of Christ, from the Garden of Olives to the Crucifixion. In ancient times, the stretcher used for carrying sick people was called a “machine”. The term later came to mean, in a broader sense, the base on which statues were placed for transport. The “machines” are transferred on Friday to the Basilica of Sant’Andrea, where the procession that brings them all together begins. It then continues by candlelight and torchlight through the streets and piazzas of the town’s centre. A relic of the Holy Cross is also carried in the procession.