La Tania - The history

A secret: that which must be kept hidden the better to be protected.

Once there was a hamlet halfway between Méribel and Courchevel, called La Tagna, which meant “the Bear’s dwelling”, a reference to the bears that lived in the Tarentaise forest until the start of the 20th Century. They suddenly disappeared in the 30’s, no doubt hunted down by the mountain folk through fear.

Near this little hamlet, on a beautiful day in 1990, came into being a ski resort soon to be baptised La Tania. The town hall people had thought of erecting a resort in this area since the 70’s, that is why they had a long time to think and to learn from the mistakes others had made.

Jacques LABRO, an architect of renowned talent (Silver medal in 1968 for the resort of Avoriaz) and his team worked hard to preserve this beautiful location by using perfectly integrated constructions, using wood and traditional materials wherever possible. The Commune of La Perrière is essentially supplied with electric power from a local hydro-electric power station, a non polluting source of energy. To help limit the further energy consumption, all the buildings are built with a very effective system of insulation.

La Tania was chosen as the welcome village of the Albertville 16th winter Olympic games, housing ice hockey teams and some of the international press. Since then, the resort has always attracted an international family clientele, which is seduced, both winter and summer, by the friendliness of this traffic free resort in the middle of the forest, combined with the superlative quality and easy access of the Three Valleys lift system.