"Innsbruck offers lots of options for a winter holiday. I found it's a place where you don't have to hurtle down ski slopes or dance like crazy at apres-ski parties. In fact I was amazed when I took the 20-minute cable car from the city centre up 2,000 metres to an area where locals were sitting in deckchairs on the snow reading books and sipping hot chocolate in the strong Tirolean sunshine."
"The Sierra Nevada range is just 17 miles south of Granada in Andalucia, making the beautiful city a viable place to stay if visiting these high mountains. For skiers the resort village of Pradollano is at 2,100 metres, from which cable cars and chairlifts reach up close to the 3,000-metre summits. It's a fantastic ski resort, Europe's most southerly, but is still very much under most people's radar."
Innsbruck provides a range of winter-holiday options beyond aggressive skiing and loud apres-ski. A 20-minute cable car from the city centre rises 2,000 metres to sunny Tirolean slopes where locals relax in deckchairs. Ski runs lie about half an hour from the Imperial Palace. City authorities run guided free walks and winter activities, including a cross-country-skiing taster with a hotel Welcome Card. Riverside cafes serve strong Austrian coffee and Gerschtnsuppe. The Sierra Nevada sits 17 miles south of Granada; Pradollano at 2,100m links to 3,000-metre summits, offering 112km of pistes, 134 slopes, reliable snow and proximity to the Mediterranean.
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