Discover Colfosco: Landscape, Culture and Mountain Sports

Colfosco is the right choice if you do not want to limit your trip to a single activity. The range extends from impressive mountain landscapes and historical heritage to hiking, mountain biking and winter sports. Corvara is an important point of reference: The village was first mentioned in 1296 in a document by Girardo di Coruera and lies in a broad basin between the Sassongher and the Sella Group on one side and the Pralongià high plateau on the other.

Mountain landscape in Puez-Odle Nature Park

Puez-Odle Nature Park extends across the municipalities of Corvara and Badia in Alta Badia, San Martino in Badia, Funes, Ortisei, Santa Cristina and Selva di Val Gardena in Val Gardena. It covers a total of 10,722 hectares. For your planning, this creates a landscape area in which the distinctive basin of Corvara stands alongside an extensive nature park. Those who enjoy exploring on foot can therefore combine their stay with views of different forms of mountain landscape without losing sight of the cultural highlights on their itinerary.

Church history and Ladin art

The Chiesa di Santa Caterina d’Alessandria is Corvara’s first church. It was mentioned in 1347 and consecrated in 1452. Built in the late Gothic style, it also houses an altarpiece with folding wings dating from 1520. It is the only folding altarpiece in the churches of Val Badia that is still well preserved. The workshop of Raimond Mussner offers another way of engaging with the landscape of the Ladin valleys: a permanent exhibition there presents watercolours and bronze sculptures that explore this landscape. This allows visitors to experience their stay through architecture, sacred art and regional visual culture as well.

Hiking with moderate demands

The high-altitude hike at the foot of the Sella Group begins in Corvara and follows the eastern side of the Sella Group. It involves only slight changes in elevation and is not technically difficult. The starting point of the hike, or the destination in question, can be reached by public transport. This specific hiking option is therefore suitable for travellers planning a day in the mountains with moderate demands without having to forgo a high-alpine landscape. This focus may be just as important when choosing your accommodation as the question of whether you want to combine culture and nature in your daily itinerary.

Sellaronda by mountain bike

The Sellaronda MTB Tour also passes through Corvara. Thanks to the use of lifts for the steeper ascents, the entire tour can be completed in one day. If you are looking for mountain-bike experiences, this provides a specific route idea alongside the technically easy high-altitude hike.

Winter sports and the history of skiing

Corvara was home to the first ski school in Alta Badia in the 1930s. The development of the lifts is also part of the local history: The Col-Alto toboggan lift was built in 1938 and replaced in 1947 by Italy’s first chairlift. The Alta Badia ski area has 130 km of perfectly groomed ski slopes. A winter stay here therefore combines a historical perspective on the beginnings of skiing with an extensive range of slopes. Depending on your personal interests, you can therefore focus your trip on the slopes, a mountain hike, the Sellaronda MTB Tour or culture.

More destinations for planning your trip

If you would like to compare other places in addition to Colfosco, here are the nearby destinations: Mühlwald, Terenten, Vintl, Toblach, Olang, Enneberg, Rasen-Antholz and Sexten.

To the main travel overview: Puster Valley.