Today marks one year to go until the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy. The ski resorts are getting ready to co-host the event, marking the return of the games to a traditional European venue for the first time in two decades.

Next year’s Winter Olympics might be called the Milan Cortina Games but they will actually be staged across a large swath of northern Italy. Covering an area of more than 22,000 square kilometres (nearly 10,