The country's most rural State, Vermont is also a place of great refinement. It is the State of the ski resorts, of the forestal excursions, antiquity stores, and artist colonies.

Less populated, Vermont still possesses General Stores, these traditional country stores where you can find home items as well as clothes for farm works, and local food products.

Burlington

On Lake Champlain, Burlington, the State's largest city, is the seat of University of Vermont. A nice town to walk around, gifted by a lively principal artery bordered by restaurant terraces and craft shops.

11 km south of Burlington, on the banks of Lake Champlain, we will find the Shelburne Museum. Its 35 buildings, the majority of them have been transported and faithfully reconstructed there, make the ancient New England live once again. The museum houses one of the largest American pop art collection in the country. You can see an old atelier of a shoemaker marshall, a post relay, a lighthouse, a miniature circus caravan of 140 m of length, and many other examples recreating the atmosphere of America's old times.

The Green Mountains of Vermont stretch from the north border of Vermont until Massachusetts. They offer you miles of excursion pathways, and night shelters every 9 km, on the Beaten Path of 360 km long. The highest point of Vermont is Mont Mansfield (4,394 ft) on the north of the chain. It is told that the silhouette of Mont Mansfield resembles a human visage.

There are more than 100 covered bridges in Vermont. Just beyond St. Johnsbury (east of Burlington) you can see five of them, distanced about a few kilometers from each other.

In the same area, in Barre, you can visit the granite exploitation, the country's most productive, exploitated already since 1900.

Skylifts allow you to enjoy a marvelous view towards the Green Mountains and their luxurious landscape. In summer and autumn, you can take a ride on sky lifts to Killington, Mount Snow, Stowe, Sugarbush at Warren, Bromley (Manchester Center), and Jay Peak, in the north of Vermont.

Montpelier

The capital. From every single way you take to enter the city, the first thing you see would be the golden dome of the State's Capitol. Its Museum of Natural History contains the Daye Press, first newspaper to be printed in North America.

Going to the south, we will arrive at Bennington. Its museum possesses the glass collection of "Old America" and the paintings of our favorite primitive artist : Grandma Moses, born Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860 - 1961), who started painting around the age of 70 year old.

The Bennington Museum possesses her largest collection - she made about 1500 works until the end of her life.