Dolomites > Val Gardena

The amazingly beautiful Val Gardena lies in the centre of the fantastic and impressive world of the Dolomites. With its main destinations, Ortisei, Selva Gardena and S. Christina, the Val Gardena offers a diverse and attractive holiday programme for every season.

During the summer months you will be impressed by the marvellous Dolomites mountain range and its picturesque mountain pastures, colourful grasslands and romantic mountain lakes, which enchant enthusiastic hikers and mountaineers; but also during the winter months a wide range of different activities are on offer.

With its modern ski lifts, 175 km of optimally groomed slopes and cross-country ski runs of a total length of 98 km, the Val Gardena is one of the most popular and biggest ski areas in the entire region of the Alps.

Two World Cup races which regularly take place in December are the height of the ski season: the Super G and the men’s downhill on the notorious Saslong slope. World Cups have been taking place here since 1969, and each year a large number of fans flock to the Val Gardena to be on site when their favourite skiers fight for sub seconds.

The Val Gardena’s popularity as a holiday region is not only due to its reputation as a winter sport region and for its unspoilt nature, but also because of its tradition of handicraft and woodcarving, which evolved in the Val Gardena at the beginning of the 17th century.

Besides the possibility to admire sacral wooden sculptures, small sculptures for nativity mangers or animal sculptures, it is also possible to buy one or two at one of the local woodcraft shops.