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La Plagne has one of the biggest areas of consistently intermediate skiing around. And above the main purpose-built resorts it is high, snowsure skiing. There's mile after mile of motorway cruising, usually with some more difficult options. There are also pretty runs down through the trees to traditional villages. These are, in general, more attractive but less convenient for the skiing than the seven separate purpose-built centres higher up. Taken as a whole, La Plagne has considerable attractions for all skiers except those after the steepest pistes. La Plagne consists of no fewer than 11 separate 'villages'; seven are purpose-built at altitude on or above the tree-line and linked by road, lifts and pistes; the other four are widely spaced in the valleys below. Even the resorts built up the mountain vary considerably in style and character. The first to be built, in the 1960s, was Plagne Centre, at around 2000m - still the focal point for shops and apres-ski. Typical of its time, it consists of big ugly blocks and dark, depressing passageways which house the shops, bars and restaurants. Above it, and linked by cable-car, is the even more obtrusive Aime la Plagne - a single great apartment block in the shape of a giant chalet