Edit No.38
Cortina, Still Family Run
Hotel Ambra · Sollievo Cortina · El Brite de Larieto · Libreria Sovilla
Edit No.38 goes to Cortina d'Ampezzo, beginning at Hotel Ambra, an independently owned boutique hotel behind a bright yellow façade just off Corso Italia, with contemporary Alpine rooms upstairs and two very different bars below.
Above the town in Pocol, Sollievo is a restored 1939 villa in more than a hectare of private larch woodland, with three bedrooms in a house the owner also calls home.
On the road to Passo Tre Croci, El Brite de Larieto is the Gaspari family's working farm and restaurant, where the stable adjoins the dining room and the butter comes from the cows next door.
Back in the centre on Piazza Franceschi, Libreria Sovilla has been run by the same family since 1971, a bookshop with a literary history that is still part of Italian cultural life.
In this edit
Reading
Libreria Sovilla, Cortina's Bookshop With a Literary History
A bookshop has been part of Cortina since the early twentieth century, and the Sovilla family have been running it since 1971. Their literary encounters helped establish a tradition that remains part of Italian cultural life. We went in to browse and stayed considerably longer than planned.
Place
El Brite de Larieto, Where the Stable Is Part of the Restaurant
A working farm at 1,664 metres in a larch wood above Cortina, where the cows are twenty paces from the table and much of what reaches the plate was produced within sight of it. We ate outside on a gold October afternoon.
Living
Sollievo, A House in the Woods Above Cortina
A 1939 villa in Pocol, more than a hectare of private woodland, and three bedrooms in a house the owner also calls home. We visited in October, ahead of its first guest stays, for a private preview and lunch.
Living
Hotel Ambra, A Different Kind of Alpine Hotel
Behind a bright yellow façade in central Cortina, Elisabetta Dotto has built a hotel that takes its cues as much from fashion and contemporary art as from the Dolomites. We stayed in one of its refurbished top-floor rooms and found the bars downstairs to be an entirely different proposition from the bedroom above them.
Questions
- What is in this edit?
- Four pieces: Hotel Ambra, a 24-room boutique hotel at Via XXIX Maggio 28, Cortina d'Ampezzo; Sollievo, a restored 1939 country house at Località Pocol 49 above the town; El Brite de Larieto, the Gaspari family's farm restaurant at Località Larieto on the road to Passo Tre Croci; and Libreria Sovilla, the historic independent bookshop at Piazza Franceschi 11.