This crib in the shape of a 2.3-metre-high and 1.8-metre-wide winged altar was made in 1947 by Luis Insam from Ortisei for his family. The altar, reminiscent of neo-Gothic style, is carved from Swiss pine and is unvarnished. It depicts the three kings on their journey to Bethlehem, the shepherds' adoration and, on its wings, there are reliefs showing the nativity story, for which the artist deploys a rural farm setting. 

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".

On the spot of the cultural centre there was once a multi-storey building constructed in 1854 in urban style by the manufacturer, Johann Baptist Purger, along with some council offices and doctor's surgery. It also served as a temporary warehouse for the toy manufacturer Anton Sotriffer. Both buildings influenced the character of parish square, until, in 1969, they had to make way for a congress hall for the 1970 Winter Olympics built at the turn of the century and bearing the name 'Casa di Cultura Luis Trenker'.

Johann Baptist Purger started living in Cësa Pana in 1832. He had the new road from Val Gardena to Ponte Gardena constructed in 1856, which played a significant role in the valley's economic boom. The building is on the original site of a farm at parish square that dates back in records to the 11th century and used to belong to the Lords of Freising. Its present appearance is an extension carried out in 1908 in the historical turn-of-the-century villa style.

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.

This turn-of-the-century villa, known as the 'red house', or 'angel's castle' because of its statue of St. Michael, was built by the altar builder and manufacturer Josef Runggaldier, living in the 'Blue House' next door, for his son Josef Jr. and was equipped with its own workshop on the ground floor. It is still used as an atelier today by sculptor Hermann-Josef Runggaldier, a great-grandson of the original constructor.

This site is part of the tour "The turn-of-the-century economic boom in Ortisei: villas and workshops".