What to see in Aspen, tips for visiting the pretty town of Colorado, suitable for both winter sports and summer trekking excursions, between classical music concerts and meetings with artists and VIPs.
Tourist information
Aspen, whose name means aspen or a plant widely present in the woods of the area, is a pretty town in the United States located in the scenery of the beautiful Colorado mountains, at an altitude of about 2,400 m.
Aspen, before the whites arrived to work in the silver mines with which its subsoil was rich, was inhabited by the Ute Indians who were subsequently forced to leave the territory.
In the last twenty years of the nineteenth century thousands of miners lived and worked in this city created out of nothing.
With the closure of the mines, Aspen fell completely abandoned and only around 1936 its fortunes changed, when two American billionaires had the intuition to build extraordinary ski slopes on the slopes of the mountain, making the location an ideal place for practice this sport, so much so that it was chosen by the international federation, as the venue for the 1950 Alpine Ski World Championship.
The event gave Aspen a lot of notoriety, which became a popular destination for mountain lovers, ideal for skiing in winter and for wonderful trekking excursions in summer.
What see
Today Aspen is an exclusive holiday resort, known not only for its skiing offer, but also for its cultural aspect, as there are many concerts of classical music, it is also the residence of many artists and frequented by many celebrities, including including some Hollywood stars.
After the birth of the Aspen Institute and the Aspen Music Festival and School Aspen, it has also become an international destination for conferences, entertainment, literary art and music.
A short distance from Aspen there is a small airport connected to various national destinations, while the nearest international airport is Denver Airport, Colorado's main city.
