A stylised depiction of a double eagle in slip decoration, the sign of the cross and the year 1828 adorn a large glazed clay plate. More decorative elements are arranged in concentric circles. Ceramic utensils were typical for Tyrol, and this plate comes from Hof Rescion in Oltretorrente. 

This watercolour with peonies was created by Jakob Sotriffer between 1822-24 during his time as a student at the Vienna Academy, where a state-awarded grant allowed him to train as a drawing teacher and sculptor. Sotriffer came from Plajes farm in Ortisei and was taken on as the first teacher at the new drawing school in 1825. 

Stufan farm site (today Villa Margherita) is considered to be one of the oldest recorded settlement sites in Ortisei. The altar builder and manufacturer, Josef Rifesser Sr., built the twin farmhouses in 1872 and, in 1882, converted them into an art school for church interior decorations with its own sculpture and carpentry workshop. The business was one of the largest altar-building workshops in Ortisei around 1900.  His son, Josef Jr. (bera Sepl da Stufan), carried on with the company and opened a branch at the railway station in Bressanone.

Plan de Mureda was built in 1834 by Jan Matie Moroder da Scurcià, a trader of fashion accessories living in Ancona, as a summer house. Starting in 1869, his sons, Alois and Franz, exported wooden toys to the whole of Europe under the name of 'Moroder brothers'. There was a small warehouse (today 'Pension Sole') next door where producers delivered their wares. Ortisei primary school now occupies the spot behind the building where the 1849-built stable used to stand.

After the 1830s, Cësa Bugon was the seat of 'Insam & Prinoth', one of the largest pre-First World War toy manufacturers in Val Gardena. The company had a branch in Nuremberg in 1820 and, later on, one in London. There was a large warehouse as well as the manufacturing premises with offices and packaging workshop housed in a stable and the goods were transported from there to the point connecting up with the railway network.

The former stable at Pana farm was extended by Johann Baptist Purger in 1854 for the purpose of packaging toys and, at a later date, altars, for export. A bridge over the Anna river was built at the same time to ease transport by sledge. Today, the packaging house is home to an eatery with a western façade consisting of porphyry stone blocks like the bridge, while its foundations are made of solid Val Gardena sandstone.

This site is part of the tour "Ortisei: a stroll through the village centre and its history".

This several-storey building was built in 1890 by Johann Baptist Sotriffer, owner of the Pedetliva farm, along the new valley road. In 1922, his son Anton (born 1893) opened a shop here, including a section dedicated to the direct sale of wood carvings and wooden toys produced in the valley. While tourism flourished in the 1930s, the international export of Val Gardena carvings faced a decline. In this challenging interwar period, Anton Sotriffer responded with innovation, experimenting with new materials and products. The Sotriffer shop still exists today.

Cësa Rusina is named after Rusina Vinatzer, who had it built in 1887 and set up her shop on the ground floor, where she sold carved wooden souvenirs for the emerging tourist trade. It still stands today. The Austrian photographer, Emil Terschak, had his first atelier in the house from 1894 to 1900, which, after his move to Cortina, was taken over by the photographer Dominik Holzknecht. From 1955 to 1961, 'Radio Ladin de Gherdëina' radio station broadcast from Haus Rusina.

Villa Rifesser, since 2006 a listed building that was influenced by late Historicism and features a veranda with Jugendstil elements, came about in 1890 thanks to the conversion of the old farmhouse by the altar builder and manufacturer, Josef Rifesser. His son, Josef Jr., carved four wooden busts of figures involved in the Tyrolean Rebellion of 1809 for the bay window. The workshop on the ground floor was used by the sculptor, Pepi Rifesser, a grandson of the builder, until the turn of the century.

Cësa Tavella bears the name of the renowned sculptor, Franz Tavella, who came from Val Badia. He had a two-storey house with its own sculpture workshop built on the ground floor in 1890/91, where lots of young sculptors did their training, including Rudolf Moroder Lenért and Johann Baptist Moroder Lusenberg. In 1905, the sculptor Levije Antone (Luis Anton) Insam from S. Cristina bought the house, where his son Luis carried out artistic work and trained young sculptors.