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"Great is the power of memory that dwells in places." (from Cicero)

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Col de Flam Dessëura

This twin farmhouse's mother farm was first mentioned in records in the 15th century. The wooden farm building situated on top of the cellar dates back to the 16th century. The 'palancin' balcony, a scaffolding-like structure used up until the early 1960s for drying and maturing grain grown in the farm's fields (barley, rye, oats) and running around three sides of the barn, is characteristic for Val Gardena.

This site is part of the tour "San Giacomo and its over-500-year-old farms".

Col de Flam Dessot

The core of this detached farm with living and farm quarters under one roof dates back to 1554. The inside of the listed farm building was converted a few years ago. The farm name is from the pre-Romanesque place name of Col de Flam, which is linked to a 'La Tène' period cult site ('place with priests', 'place of invocation'), attested to by archaeological finds in Museum Gherdëina.

This site is part of the tour "San Giacomo and its over-500-year-old farms".

Cësanueva

The farmhouse, partly built into the surrounding land, dates back to the 15th century. The current living quarters were converted around the start of the 20th century. For generations, jointed wooden dolls and horses as well as special crib figurines with moving parts were made at Josef Insam's family business and sold all over Europe. In times of war, production was extended to include prosthetic hands and feet.

Villa ANRI

Villa ANRI in S. Cristina, now a listed building, newly built in 1925, was used as the headquarters of the ANRI company founded in 1921 by Anton Riffeser. For this purpose, workshops, offices, warehouses, packing and exhibition spaces were housed here. ANRI products were sold as far away as the USA and in its heyday, the company employed up to 230 people. Production was moved to premises at Plan da Tieja in 1952 and ceased in 2021.

Cësa Pigon

Originally a twin farmhouse, Cësa Pigon was converted and given a new façade with red quoins and red window framing. Cësa Pigon was the seat of one of the oldest export wood carving businesses in the valley, the Riffeser company (Pigon), set up by Vinzenz Riffeser. Its foundation year is not known, but it pre-dates the First World War. At the end of the 20th century, Pigon was mainly selling imported wood carving products, and in 2012 the company shut down.

Villa Domur

The wood carver Christina Rifesser was running a workshop in the old farmhouse Domur back in 1888. When Matthias Comploy inherited the farmhouse in Tieja from his mother in 1903, he turned it into a turn-of-the-century style villa and set up a private teaching workshop for sculpting and altar-building carpentry. As of 1910, the teacher Albino Pitscheider and his family lived here and Comploy had to auction the workshop after the First World War.

Cësa Vastlé

The SEVI company run by Vinzenz Senoner was (together with ANRI of Anton Riffeser) one of the most important employers in Val Gardena, with 140 employees and 200 home-based workers, and it was one of Europe's leading producers of woodcarvings. Cësa Vastlé was constructed in 1831 by Senoner's father, Josef Anton, who started exporting small wooden figurines and toys. After construction of factory premises in Pontives in 1965, SEVI company headquarters were transferred there in 1977. Nowadays, there is a new building where the old one used to be.

Maciaconi

Around 1870, Alois (Levisc) Riffesser founded one of the first export businesses for wooden toys and souvenirs at Plan da Tieja. In 1877, he built the several-storey-high Maciaconi building as his home and company premises with shop, which was even mentioned in a poem by Leo Runggaldier about a rattling wooden toy. The building itself and Dosses square became a popular motif for engravings and historical picture postcards.

Villa Venezia

Johann Baptist Moroder, son of Josef Moroder Lusenberg and himself one of the most important Val Gardena sculptors around 1900, built Villa Venezia in 1903/04 based on his own designs for a residence in neo-Renaissance style with a balustrade featuring marble wooden columns. A sculptor's studio and domed skylight were included. The mills from Planaces farm, the forge with furnace and a sawmill used to be in front of the newly built house.

Villa Argentina

Villa Argentina is reminiscent of a 23-metre high, 10-metre-wide high altar built for a church in Cordoba (Argentina) between 1918 and 1920. In charge of construction of the altar - the largest ever built in Val Gardena - was Josef Stuflesser (Bera Pepi de Petlin), who took over the ecclesiastical art academy in J.B. Purger Street after the First World War. Stuflesser bought this house with the proceeds of the Cordoba work and moved his office and residence here.