Durnwald

Top choice in The Dolomites


Hidden away in the pastoral Val di Casies (Gsiesertal) is this gem of a family-run restaurant, specialising in ultra-fresh, locally sourced seasonal South Tyrolean cuisine. Plates of venison goulash with polenta, pork medallions with chanterelles and porcini, spinach dumplings, house-cured meats and smoked trout mousse are all served with a smile and best finished off with scrumptious desserts such as homemade apple fritters.


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1. LUMEN Museum of Mountain Photography

10.74 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…

2. Messner Mountain Museum Kronplatz

10.87 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…

3. Messner Mountain Museum Ripa

11.53 MILES

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

4. Kriegerfriedhof

11.57 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…

5. Museo Ladin

14.84 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…

6. Chiesetta di San Giovanni in Ranui

23.47 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 …

7. Dom

25.01 MILES

The lofty two-spired baroque cathedral you see today was built on top of the AD 980 Gothic-Romanesque original in 1745. While the bishop decamped to…

8. Diözesanmuseum

25.12 MILES

This museum is far more interesting than most of its ilk, and its magnificent palazzo (mansion) home testament to Bressanone's once-important religious…