CROSS-COUNTRY CENTRE IN LAGO DI TESERO
Built in 1991, the facility will be extensively enlarged and restored by 2003.
The aim is to make it one of the world's best cross-country centres.

Though relatively young, the Cross-country Centre in Lago di Tesero would give enough hints to write the history of Italian cross-country skiing.
Lago di Tesero is a delightful village pleasantly set in green Val di Fiemme, where cross country is deeply rooted.
This Nordic discipline has born champions of sterling character.
It is practised on a mass scale because it is a pure sport, fatiguing yet at the same time mood-enhancing, for it gives the opportunity traverse enchanting areas.
And the environment is something which Val di Fiemme feels deeply proud of.
The history of Italian cross country skiing has links with Lago di Tesero.
"Lago" is the Italian word for lake.
Reference here is made to the big lake which once covered the area in pre-historical times.
As competitors, local organisers have undergone all stages, from the first amateur races to the Nordic Ski World Championships in 1991, according to an unspoken rule which has strengthened in time.
The first important competitions were the regional Youth Games held ten years earlier followed by the national Youth Games, featuring children and teenagers.
In 1988, after a long wait, the Nordic Ski World Championships for 1991 were officially assigned.
For the first time in fifty years this international ski competition was held in a southern European country.
The Championships had been held in Italy only twice before, namely in 1927 and in 1941 in Cortina d'Ampezzo.
The organisers were immediately stirred into action to implement the cross-country centre project, which was suggested by warrant officer Macor, who spent a lifetime skiing as a competitor for Gruppo Sportivo Fiamme Gialle, a military sports club based in Predazzo.
This is how this first-class cross-country complex was born.
The technically high-level circuit hosting the 1991 WM measured 16.6 km.
The operating centre was obviously Lago di Tesero, but the course was run partly eastward to Panchià and Ziano, then westward downhill to the area surrounding the village of Cavalese.

See also::
Cross-Country centre Passo Lavazè