Rifugio Ospitale

Top choice in Cortina d’Ampezzo


A 10km, forest-shaded drive from Cortina, this stylish place is astounding value, with spectacular mountain views from its large rooms. The well-regarded restaurant (open 9am to 11pm, Tuesday to Sunday) has an unexpected elegance: choose from a modern communal dining table or cosy stuben (traditional dining room). Make sure to ask for the key to the fresco-filled 13th-century church that nestles below the hotel.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Cortina d’Ampezzo attractions

1. Messner Mountain Museum Kronplatz

12.87 MILES

Mountaineer Reinhold Messner's sixth and final mountain museum also sadly happened to be one of the final projects of star architect Zaha Hadid before her…

2. LUMEN Museum of Mountain Photography

12.96 MILES

Anyone passionate about the mountains should make a beeline for this captivating museum, opened in 2018 at the summit of Kronplatz ski resort. The…

3. Museo Ladin

13 MILES

Atmospherically set in a castle 15km south of Brunico and full of folk treasures, this is the best of three museums in this region devoted to Ladin…

4. Messner Mountain Museum

16.06 MILES

Part of Reinhold Messner’s five-museum ode to the Dolomites, the so-called Museum in the Clouds on Monte Rite (2181m) offers a complete 360-degree…

5. Kriegerfriedhof

16.32 MILES

This pristinely maintained cemetery set in a forest on Kühbergl just behind the town has graves of soldiers from the nearby WWI front as well as a section…

6. Messner Mountain Museum Ripa

16.36 MILES

Brunico's 13th-century hilltop castle is the evocative setting for mountaineer Reinhold Messner's fifth 'Mountain Museum'. Opened in 2011, it documents…

7. Chiesetta di San Giovanni in Ranui

20.01 MILES

Sitting alone in a meadow below the gargantuan spiky peaks of the Odle mountain group, this tiny and almost impossibly picturesque onion-steepled church …

8. Museum de Gherdëina

22.36 MILES

Ortisei's folky Museum de Gherdëina has a particularly exquisite collection of wooden toys and sculptures, along with other artefacts and exhibits related…