Ortisei

The tourist hotspot Ortisei offers a large array of accommodation facilities you can choose from and unlimited possibilities to spend your time during your holidays all year round: hiking and mountaineering on well-marked trails, Nordic walking, mountain biking, downhill or cross-country skiing, snowboarding, ski touring, snowshoeing, sledging. There is also a great indoor and outdoor swimming pool complex with different saunas, a fitness centres with saunas, and you can play billiard, golf, miniature golf, tennis and go riding, fishing, as well as ice skating and curling.

All accommodation facilities are at a stone’s throw from the slopes in winter and in summer you can just put on your hiking shoes and go for it. Modern cableways and lifts are part of the modern infrastructure Ortisei has to offer. Monte Rasciesa, Seceda and the Alpe di Siusi are waiting to be discovered by you!
In Ortisei there is a very good bus network as well as a pedestrian connection between S. Antonio Square and the Seceda valley station through escalators and moving walks. Moreover, Ortisei is connected with the famous Sellaronda ski circuit and is part of Dolomiti Superski, the largest ski carousel in the Alps.
 

Ortisei boasts of exquisite restaurants and pizzerias where you can taste typical South Tyrolean and Mediterranean dishes! The lively pedestrian area in the village centre is a wonderful meeting place with many lovely cafés and great shopping possibilities.
What Ortisei’s nightlife is concerned, there are several pubs, bars, après-ski locations and a disco which you should check out.
There are many events taking place in Ortisei throughout the year.
 

• The Museum de Gherdëina

Churches:

• the Parish Church of Ortisei
• S. Antonio Church
• S. Giacomo Church
• S. Anna Chapel
• Chapel Santa Croce on Monte Rasciesa

Castle: 

• Castle ruin Stetteneck

Other:

• Art gallery UNIKA
• Art gallery Art52

Ortisei is the birthplace of:

• the above all in the German speaking areas famous mountaineer, film director and actor Luis Trenker;
• the worldwide known songwriter and performer, record producer and film score composer Giorgio Moroder. He’s considered to be the founder of the synthesizer disco music and has already his place in the Dance Music Hall of Fame. Giorgio Moroder is the winner of 3 Oscars and has also been honoured with 4 Golden Globes and 3 Grammies;
• the figure skating star Carolina Kostner who at the age of 22 has already won the following titles: 2007 and 2008 European Champion, 2008 World silver medallist, bronze medallist at the 2005 World Championships and the 2003 Junior World Championships, 4 times Italian National Champion;
• the former alpine skier Isolde Kostner who won three Olympic medals, was twice World Champion and won twice the Downhill World Cup.