Hotel Dolomiti Madonna
First ski club, first hockey club: An inn with a (sporting) history.
In around 1898, painter Christian Delago purchased a house beneath the art school, where he and his wife Josefina Schmalzl established a coffee house; by 1906, they had expanded it to the Dolomitenhotel Madonna. Delago also relocated his workshop to the hotel, which boasted 25 bedrooms, a garden, a veranda, and an art studio for guests.
In 1908, the Ladinia Dolomite Alpine Ski Club – the first of its kind in the valley - was founded in the hotel, followed by the Gröden Hockey Club in 1927. The hotel as it can be seen today is the result of renovation and expansion works carried out in the 1950s and 1990s.
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Historic guest houses
Epoch:19th century
Area(s):Ortisei
GPS coordinates:@11.67708,46.57208
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