Are two typical villages near Ponte di Legno for those who love peace, long summer walks and downhill and cross-country skiing in winter. Ski lifts are also found at - San Pietro Corteno Golgi Aprica (the Brescian part of the Aprica ski area)= which is the north-western tip of Valcamonica.
Corteno Golgi (named after Camillo Golgi, Nobel Prize-winner for medicine in 1906) is a very old village and a summer tourist resort. It lies in the heart of a valley of great natural interest and is the starting point for excursions into the Brandet and Campovecchio valleys (see "Parks and Nature").

This is one of the oldest ski stations in Italy but also a famous summer resort throughout the Alps. Its position is splendid on a sunny plateau at 1260 m above sea level overlooked by the Adamello range. The historic centre is very picturesque and there is also a lively little square. There is no end of things to see in the surrounding country: Case di Viso, Pezzo, Canč, Vescasa and Sant'Apollonia with their stone houses; the Val Grande and the Valle delle Messi, the lakes of Montozzo, Avio and Aviolo with their unspoilt countryside, flowers and animals; and the Parks of Adamello and Stelvio for climbers and Walkers. For sportsmen there is mountaineering, jogging in the woods, mountain-biking, horse-riding, tennis, archery, summer skiing on the Presena glacier, golf on the 9-hole course at Valbondione and fishing in the rivers.
In winter Ponte di Legno is a well-equipped resort with pistes for all levels of skier and has artificial snow, cross-country skiing, connection to the Pass at Tonale to make up a single ski area, ice-skating, swimming pools, discotheques and games rooms (see "Sport").