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 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.

In 1887, altar builder Josef Runggaldier Sr. constructed Villa Stillheim in historical country house style on a plot of land belonging to Poz Dessot farm. The façade lending the villa the name of 'Blue House' (Ladin Cësa Bruma) was inspired by business trips to Hungary. Around 18 artisans were working in the firm at Pasperg/Roncadizza around 1900, and the altars produced there were exported abroad and awarded numerous prizes.

The 'Cësa di Ladins' building was constructed in 1954 by the cultural association 'Union di Ladins de Gherdëina'. It is the first cultural centre in the Dolomite-Ladin valleys. The museum has been here since 1960 and was extended twice (1970, 1985). On the basis of a recent international architecture competition, the building is going to be refurbished with the support of Gardena valley local councils, the Autonomous province of Bolzano-South Tyrol and the Autonomous region of Trentino-Südtirol, and partially replaced by a new museum building.

The bishops of Augsburg founded a village around the old church of Saint Ulrich. This parish church was situated at the graveyard, as mentioned in records from 1342, but it is quite a bit older than that. The building, close to collapse, was pulled down in the 1790s and a new parish church was built on land between the two farmhouses Pana and Ortiseit, where there was a second village centre. At the end of the 18th century, both village centres merged together, reflected in today's village names of St. Ulrich/Ortisei/Urtijëi.

There is hardly anything left of Stetteneck Castle, and its position near Saint Jacob's church near Pincan could only be confirmed in 2000 thanks to archaeological excavations. Yet the castle played an important role in the development of the village and new supplies were brought mainly to San Giacomo to provide for its inhabitants. The Stetteneck family was wiped out at the start of the 14th century for political reasons.

In 1872, Ferdinand Demetz da Furdenan opened the first public training workshop for sculptors in Ortisei. The multi-storey building on the eastern edge of Ortisei was purchased by the local council in 1938 and the art school that had in the meantime moved out moved back in again. In 1999, a new construction was set up on the spot of the original Cademia building, which houses the art school today.

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

The multi-storey school building on Stetteneck square was opened in 1890 and originally housed the primary school. The new state-run technical school for illustrating and modelling was also found here. In 1938, the technical school moved to the adapted Cademia building. The primary school moved to today's school building in the 1980s. Today, the library, music school, post office and Catores Alpine school are housed in the old school building.

Saint Jacob's church is assumed to be the oldest church in the valley and is thought to have been built by the lords of Stetteneck around 1200. It was first mentioned in records in 1246. The dedication of the church to Saint Jacob, guardian of travellers, is due to the fact that it lies on Troi Paian trade route. The church is equipped with local baroque sculptures, with the originals being stored in the museum.

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

In remembrance of the soldiers fallen in the First World War a chapel was built next to the parish church at Annabach in accordance with plans by Adolf Keim, an illustrator and teacher at the art school in Val Gardena. There is a bronze-like 'Pietà' sculpture by L. Moroder from 1921 in the semi-enclosed construction with gabled roof featuring the names of soldiers fallen in both world wars written in plaques on both sides. 

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