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ACCOMMODATION & ACTIVITY GUIDE CORTINA D’AMPEZZO cortina dolomiti | accommodation & activity guide cortina dolomiti | accommodation & activity guide ACCOMMODATION & ACTIVITY GUIDE CORTINA D’AMPEZZO © 2021 Cortina Marketing Texts: Cortina Marketing Graphics and design: Azzurra Bernardi - Cortina Marketing Front cover picture: www.bandion.it Inside cover and inside back cover picture: www.bandion.it Back cover picture: www.bandion.it Other photo credits: at the end of the guide We thank all those who contributed to the realization of this guide. We ask to communicate to Cortina Marketing - [email protected] - any corrections and updates. Cortina Marketing accepts no responsibility for changes in the content of the guide communicated after its publication. Contacts: B2b website: www.cortinamarketing.it B2c website: www.cortina.dolomiti.org Email: [email protected] Cortina Marketing 2 1 cortina dolomiti | accommodation & activity guide FOREWORD Dear Partner, of restaurants, hotel restaurants and mountain huts with more than 50 seats, accepting groups and events. We have conceived the Accommodation & Activity Guide of Cortina d’Ampezzo in order to enable you to The following chapter is dedicated to all accommodation findinformation, suggestions and contacts necessary options: hotels and chalets, mountain huts, alpine farms to support you in planning a holiday for your clients or and agriturismi, campings and other accommodation an event in Cortina d’Ampezzo. options. For each one you will find their contact details, a brief description and the services they offer. In the following pages, you will find first a general description of Cortina Marketing and how we can help The last chapter showcases the main events taking FOREWORD you and, following, a description of Cortina d’Ampezzo place on a yearly basis in Cortina d’Ampezzo. and its Unique Selling Points: what makes Cortina unique and different from other mountain destinations. We are always available for further information and suggestions, as well as to send you a selection of Afterwards, you will find a description of the main images or help you otherwise activities that you can offer your customers in Cortina all year round: summer activities, winter activities and Best regards, finally a list of other wellness, cultural, family and culinary activities, ideal for a more relaxed holiday. Cortina Marketing Team Following, there is a section dedicated to Meetings, Contacts: Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions, with the B2b website: www.cortinamarketing.it list of conference rooms available in town and on B2c website: www.cortina.dolomiti.org the mountains, the contacts of the local incoming Email: [email protected] Tour Operators and Travel Agencies as well as a list 3 cortina dolomiti | accommodation & activity guide INDEX ABOUT 9 CORTINA MARKETING 11 CORTINA, THE QUEEN OF THE DOLOMITES 13 HOW TO GET TO CORTINA ACTIVITIES 17 SUMMER ACTIVITIES 25 WINTER ACTIVITIES 33 A RELAXING RETREAT 39 MEETINGS, INCENTIVES, CONFERENCES AND EXHIBITIONS (M.I.C.E.) 46 USEFUL CONTACTS AND SERVICES ACCOMMODATION 53 HOTELS & CHALETS MOUNTAIN HUTS, ALPINE FARMS 75 & AGRITURISMI 87 CAMPINGS 89 OTHER ACCOMMODATION OPTIONS 90 TOP EVENTS 92 CORTINA HOTEL MAP 94 CORTINA PHYSICAL MAP 96 PHOTO CREDITS 4 5 ABOUT CORTINA’S UNIQUE SELLING PROPOSITION, ITS LOCATION AND WHAT CORTINA MARKETING CAN DO FOR YOU cortina dolomiti | accommodation & activity guide CORTINA MARKETING THE TOURISM BOARD OF CORTINA D’AMPEZZO PROMOTES IT IN ITALY AND ABROAD WITH TRADE OPERATORS AND THE MEDIA Cortina Marketing is the Tourism Board of Cortina business relationships. d’Ampezzo. The organization is financed by the Municipality of Cortina Marketing is also in charge of tourism marketing, Cortina d’Ampezzo in order to enhance the tourism managing Cortina’s official website and social media, sector of Cortina through several activities, including cultivating relations with the media, taking part in promotion on domestic and foreign markets. workshops and tourism fairs, supporting the local tourism industry, taking part in joint actions with One of our aims is to help the local tourism supply Dolomiti Superski, Best of the Alps and DMO Dolomiti meet national and international demand. We act as a and developing or coordinating some tourism related reference point for TOs and TAs that need information, projects. CORTINA MARKETING CORTINA photos, contacts or support to foster their activities in Cortina. For further information about Cortina or For further information, visit our b2b website help to create a full package or trip to Cortina for your www.cortinamarketing.it, where you can subscribe clients, or other information regarding the area, Cortina to our trade area for timely updates from Cortina. Marketing is the right choice. Contacts: We also organise fam and press trips, and we are happy B2b website: www.cortinamarketing.it to assist and ease journalists and operators that intend B2c website: www.cortina.dolomiti.org to come to Cortina to promote it in the media or build Email: [email protected] 9 cortina dolomiti | accommodation & activity guide CORTINA, THE QUEEN OF THE DOLOMITES TRADITION, SPORTS, SERVICES AND A UNIQUE LANDSCAPE MAKE CORTINA ONE OF EUROPE’S TOP MOUNTAIN DESTINATIONS Cortina d’Ampezzo, or simply Cortina, is a gem of sheer a vast array of snowshoeing and ski touring options as beauty in the heart of the Alps. well as cross-country skiing pistes in the Natural park. Set in the wide and sunny Ampezzo Valley, the small What gives Cortina an edge is how sports can be town is surrounded in all directions by some of the most enjoyed in one of the world’s most beautiful mountain scenic peaks of the Dolomite mountains, a UNESCO environments. World Heritage site. A RELAXING RETREAT AN ALPINE CLASSIC Wonderful panoramas, comfortable hotels, fresh air and Over 1000 years of inhabitation have endowed the town a picturesque town centre: Cortina gives its guests all with a set of precious traditions, a rich history and its they need to feel good, including great food and some own local language. wellness options. Cortina was among the first Alpine destinations to host The numerous mountain huts provide a cosy ambiance CORTINA tourists, firstly explorers and scientists, then the royals and hearty, traditional food, while awarded restauran- and aristocrats of several countries; it kept evolving ts add that extra creativity and innovation and Alpine and transforming, remaining at the centre of the stage: farms deliver local products and natural food. Italy’s first Olympic Games in 1956, the Dolce Vita in Another ingredient for a relaxing holiday in the Dolomi- the 60s and then the films and film stars, the sparkly tes are the spa areas of many of Cortina’s hotels and the 80s...Today, Cortina cherishes its unique blend of local wellness experiences offered by local professionals. traditions, heritage and cosmopolitan lifestyle, all of which makes it a proud member of the Best of the SERVICES AND INFRASTRUCTURE Alps association. Due to its long tradition in tourism, Cortina has a lot to A SUPERB SPORTS TOWN offer in terms of services and infrastructure. You will find the right accommodation for many The wide Ampezzo Valley and the Dolomites types of clients: mountain lodges and camping sites surrounding it make Cortina one of the best spots for adventure seekers, apartments and hotels for a for sports enthusiasts and sporting events: the 1956 comfortable stay, agriturismi and alpine farms for a Winter Olympics, the 2021 World Ski Championships holiday in contact with nature and luxury hotels for and the Winter Olympics once again in 2026, this time that extra touch. along with Milan. Mountain professionals and ski instructors are available In the summer, it offers hundreds of kilometres of hiking to help guests make the most of their Dolomite trails, over thirty via ferratas, a golf course and then experience in complete safety in all seasons, while MTB, road biking and climbing routes. In the winter, it the town centre has many shops, bars and restaurants provides legendary ski slopes, the Olympic ice stadium, for guests to find all they need. 11 DENMARK cortina dolomiti | accommodation & activity guide SWEDEN HOW TO GET TO CORTINA ALL MEANS OF TRANSPORT TO GET TO CORTINA D’AMPEZZO Fortezza AUSTRIA Dobbiaco Bolzano UNITED CORTINA KINGDOM D’AMPEZZO Calalzo UNESCO Berlin TRENTINO Dolomites POLAND SOUTH TYROL FRIULI Belluno VENEZIA GIULIA London TRIESTE A22 205 km LOMBARDY Prosecco GERMANY Hills A27 CZECH TREVISO REPUBLIC 137 km Vicenza VENICE Garda 147 km Lake SLOVAKIA Padua Paris A4 MILAN VERONA 443 km Vienna 265 km MUNICH ADRIATIC 360 km VENETO SEA AUSTRIA HUNGARY ZURICH 445 km INNSBRUCK FRANCE 164 km SWITZERLAND CORTINA D’AMPEZZO EMILIA CROATIA ROMAGNA MILAN VENICE 443 km VERONA 147 km 265 km BOSNIA ED BOLOGNA ERZEGOVINA 296 km BY AIR BY TRAIN AND BUS BY CAR TRANSFER The main gateway to Cortina The closest train stations Cortina is crossed by route SS 51 In Cortina there are several is Venice’s Marco Polo Airport, are Calalzo to the south and in a North-South direction and companies offering transfer ROME with regular bus links to Cortina. Dobbiaco to the north, both the SS 48bis of the Dolomites services for small or large SPAIN 698 km Other airports in the area are around 30 km away from in an East-West direction. The groups within Cortina and ITALY Treviso Canova, Innsbruck Cortina. former can be taken exiting from/to airports and train Kranebitten and Verona Catullo, Cortina is linked to Venice, its Motorway A27 Venezia-Belluno stations, as well as private while larger airports such as airport and its mainland train at the exit Pian di Vedoia. transfers for events, lunches Milan Malpensa and Munich’s station of Mestre, by several Cortina is located: and dinners. They also offer Joseph Strauss are also an bus companies. Regional buses • 162 km from Venice transport of equipment and option.