The Azzurra Cortina Ski School was established in December of 1979, thanks to the purpose of four ski instructors and formers of the Italian National Ski Team. The purpose was to create a ski school of prestige, with instructors who have had very successful athletic carrers and a technical formation of top level. Therefore also federal trainers and ski professors (the teachers of the ski instrucors), alpine guides and other additional specializations that characterize a high quality of professionality. In fact these are still the requirements to be admitted as member of the Azzurra Cortina Ski School. Thanks to the reputation of its founding members, the Azzurra Cortina Ski School had a big success already from the beginning. Bruno Alberti, winner of 6 titles of Italian Ski Champion and participant to the Olympic

Games, winner of one edition of the famous " Kandahr "Kitzbuhel, trainer for many years of the Italian National Ski, " spirit " of our ski school; Gildo Siorpaes, another Italian Ski champion and trainer of the Italian Ski Team, has been always the great "engine" of the school; Giovanni Dibona, Italian Ski Champion in Slalom, personage of relief in the international ski world. >>