Stories, places, events and authentic experiences in the Belluno Dolomites, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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The history of the Manin Cafè, which, overlooking our “Listòn” (Piazza dei Martiri), served to several generations of Belluno. From the middle of the nineteenth century the “Caffè Manin” had become the main gathering place of the belligerent bourgeoisie, where “everything is spoken, spreads out to everyone” (this was the “La Bolletta”, a humorous fifteenth … Read more
Living in Belluno, in the Dolomites, and working remotely for the rest of Italy: journalist Cristina Da Rold’s 2017 essay on choosing the provinces, solitude and the hyperlocal.
The recipe for sweet typical Belluno, for Carnival: the “cròstoi” (aka cenci, chatter, crostoli, lies, galani, etc.) Cròstoi Ingredients: Gr. 600 of flour “00” 2 whole eggs and 2 yolks Gr. 90 of sugar Gr. 70 of butter 1 glass of rum (or 2 tablespoons white grappa) 4 or 5 tablespoons of lukewarm milk grated … Read more
Talent is a spark that turns the obvious into art. Tree trunks, wood logs abandon their natural form and tell a new exciting story. This story and our talent are born in Valbelluna, where Terche and Ardo flow into Piave, under the watchful eye of the Dolomites. It is here that Beppino Lorenzet breathes the … Read more
The Gusela del Vescovà is the slender rock spire that rises on the crest of the Schiara group, at 2,361 metres, in the municipality of Belluno and inside the Dolomiti Bellunesi National Park. It is barely forty metres tall, but its position — isolated on the lip of a huge wall, balanced on a fissure … Read more
“Stories of the Railway” by the journalist of ANSA Dino Tonon, is a silloge of stories through which is traced the story of the old Calalzo – Cortina – Dobbiaco railway line, suppressed in 1964. What for all residents of the area and lovers of the Dolomites all over the world has been the unforgettable … Read more
My dad, Sergio Zardini My father Sergio was born in Cortina d’Ampezzo (Belluno, Veneto, Italy) in 1931 and grows in the period of development and growth of this country that reaches its peak with the 1956 Winter Olympics. In this magical period, while working in the family atmosphere at Hotel Cristallo, he succeeds in cultivating … Read more
In 1915, as the First World War raged, Austrian soldiers built a narrow-gauge railway line from Dobbiaco to Landro, in order to secure the supplies on the Italian front, where the rears were at that time. It was a field railway, in German Feldbahn, on which they traveled trains towed by steam locomotives, as Evaldo … Read more
The recipe for polenta with schìz, typical cheese of the Belluno dolomitic valley: ingredients, preparation, and a symbol dish of mountain cuisine.
