Many articles, tips, and information to help our readers discover Cortina d'Ampezzo and its surroundings. Our website has been written with passion, to share our knowledge about the town we live in every day.
CiaoCortina, Short Introduction
CiaoCortina is our unofficial tourist guide for Cortina d'Ampezzo. We live here all year round, and we decided to try to provide a service
to the guests of Cortina. Every one of our articles is totally sincere and written with the heart.
We don't want to welcome our visitors with a wall of text; you can see a more in-depth introduction
in the bottom part of this
page.
So let's start with a list of our articles, divided into sections, which are also reachable
through the table of contents at the bottom of every page.
Let's discover Cortina d'Ampezzo together: restaurants and entertainment, high-altitude excursions and scenic walks,
insider tips and local secrets. A travel guide to explore the Pearl of the Dolomites in every season, come rain or shine!
The customs, traditions, cultural heritage, and legacy of Cortina d'Ampezzo, a town with a unique cultural identity shaped between
Austria and Italy. From folk festivals to historic sites, from Ladin exhibitions to the history of Cortina and the Dolomites.
If you want to explore the surroundings of Cortina, this is the section for you. All the articles here focus on the most attractive places that can
be easily reached from Cortina d'Ampezzo, either by car or by bus.
Cortina d'Ampezzo is the ideal destination for those who love sports. In winter, it's a paradise for skiers; in summer, it's a haven for hikers.
And if it rains, you'll find gyms for fitness or indoor climbing.
The most beautiful hikes in Cortina d'Ampezzo. From the easiest walks to the hikes where some training is needed, divided by category,
as well as some advice for novice hikers.
This section contains tips and guides for your travel photos. We've been into photography for many years, so we decided to collect here
our most useful tutorials about travel photography. Let's dive into this new section and start exploring!
The other pages of our website, where you can find more information on the authors of the page, some ways to support our work,
and some alternative projects, such as our modest photo gallery.
As mentioned in the introduction, at the top of the page, CiaoCortina is a website that contains articles
written with the heart
about things to do and things to see in Cortina and its surroundings. There are also some ideas on where to eat, what to visit, where to party,
and much other useful information.
The reason we often write in the plural is because CiaoCortina is the result of the work of two brothers. We both live in Cortina all year round.
... we don't want to advertise, but we honestly want to tell you what we love about Cortina ...
All the recommendations, considerations, and articles you'll find on this website are sincere and disinterested. This is not a "soulless" website
full of ads: everything you'll read, every recommendation of what to see or where to go, is written without ulterior motives.
These are the same suggestions we could give to a friend of ours who, coming to visit us, asks us for a recommendation.
Our interest is not to advertise, but to let you know what we sincerely love about Cortina. In fact, no recommendation is paid in any way.
... we want to thank all the tourists who allow this town to live ...
We believe that living in the "Pearl of the Dolomites," as Cortina is often called, is a privilege that is granted to us thanks to those who come to visit it.
We take this opportunity to thank all the tourists, who allow this town to live.
The name Queen of the Dolomites was not given without a reason. Cortina is a wonderful place. It has been built in a natural
conformation that is unique in the world: a wide valley, surrounded by some of the most beautiful and characteristic mountains of the Dolomites.
... the panorama that will appear before you is magical; it will leave you breathless ...
Reaching Cortina for the first time will take your breath away; the panorama that will appear before you is magical, almost surreal, so much so that the Dolomites have been
considered a World Heritage Site by Unesco.
These characteristics have made Cortina d'Ampezzo a very attractive place for every type of tourist, from those who love the mountains and prefer less crowded months
to those who prefer to stroll comfortably along the lively streets of the center, do some shopping, and then eat in a luxury restaurant or in one of the wonderful mountain lodges of Cortina.
... in our travel guide we have tried to consider all types of tourism ...
In writing the articles in our Cortina tourist guide, we have tried to consider all types of tourism: from that oriented to experiencing nature to that interested
in worldliness and the good life.
There will be some missing articles regarding "super luxurious" pastimes, because they don't represent us, but nonetheless we want to give you
all our best recommendations on what to do and see in Cortina. We do our best to tell you both sides of the Queen of the Dolomites: touristic and naturalistic.
In towns like Cortina, which suffer a lot from seasonality, you can see two opposing realities.
On the one hand there are the months of peak season, characterized by crowds, queues, traffic, and the top of social life. On the other side there are the off-seasons,
characterized by extreme tranquility, almost deserted streets, and shops, bars, restaurants, and businesses mostly closed.
... the transition periods are probably the best months to visit Cortina ...
Obviously there are also the transition weeks, in which the two souls merge in what are probably the best months to visit Cortina:
those where the tourist flow is more reasonable, but the activities are still all open.
This huge difference in the different months causes a kind of seasonal schizophrenia in residents and guests, with those who love and hate certain times of the year
versus others. We recommend you reflect on what you think would be the best months for you.
... remember that, at the end, Cortina is a small mountain village ...
Finally, we must consider that a town like Cortina could be described as boring and limiting by some, but we believe that anyone who knows how to appreciate small
things and quiet life will not agree.
Remember that, in the end, Cortina is a small and peaceful mountain village: even during peak times, you shouldn't expect the same stimuli you would find in large cities.
We have made an unusual choice: completely remove advertising from the website. We also decided not to track our visitors.
The ads helped us cover the costs of running the website, but we decided to pay with our money. We want to try to
see if this project is sustainable only thanks to the generosity of our visitors.
For this reason, CiaoCortina has become a website that is financed only thanks to donations.
If you'd like to help us, we invite you to visit the page
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