For long, the hotel in San Cassiano in Alta Badia had to its name the addition of “Posta”, because a post office was stationed in the hotel after the war, as it was the case with many of the hotels in villages then. The symbol on the coat of arms, on the other hand, ...

A centuries-old Christmas tradition is repeated every year in South Tyrol. A few days before Christmas, the locals fetch their cribs from the cellars. The 'setting up' of the crib is something very special every year because it shows that the birth of Jesus and ...

Just like the three kings from the East once went to Jesus in his manger, so every year at the beginning of the year the 'Three Kings' pass through our country.  The kings Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar, nowadays also called the singers, go from house to house ...

Mariangelo Ploner was born in 1906 as the son of a shoemaker and farmer in a small mountain farm called Rü near San Cassiano. Since his childhood, he recognized the tourist potential of Alta Badia and his dream has always been to own his own house with room rental. The ...