Valtura, Dolomites. Winter opens 4 December 2026

Eleven rooms of snow and larch, 1,842 metres up.

A small house on the south slope, built from the trees that stood here. Book directly and the best rate, breakfast and the sauna are already in.

1,842 mAltitude of the front door
11Rooms, never more
4 Dec to 12 AprWinter season 2026/27
6 minOn foot to the Valtura cable car

Rooms

Every room faces the snow. Every wall is larch.

Larch Room from €290

  • 24 m²
  • 2 guests
  • South balcony

The plain one. A bed in a larch box, a bench under the window and the ridge in the glass.

Book the Larch Room

Snow Room from €340

  • 32 m²
  • 2 guests
  • Corner, two windows

On the corner of the house, so the morning arrives twice. A deep bath by the east window.

Book the Snow Room

Loft Suite from €460

  • 46 m²
  • 2 to 3 guests
  • Under the roof

The top floor, open to the rafters. A wood stove, a reading corner and a skylight for the snowfall.

Book the Loft Suite

Ridge House from €640

  • 68 m²
  • Up to 4 guests
  • Own stube

A separate house forty steps up the slope, with its own stove room, two bedrooms and a terrace in the snow.

Book the Ridge House

Rates and seasons

One rate per season, per room, per night.

No dynamic pricing. The number you see in October is the number you pay in February. Two guests included; a third guest in the Loft or Ridge House is €60 a night.

  • Breakfast from the wood oven and afternoon bread and soup
  • Sauna, steam room and the snow bath on the terrace
  • Shuttle to the cable car and the valley station on request
  • Local tourist tax billed separately at €3.50 per person per night
  • Free cancellation until 21 days before arrival, then one night
SeasonLarch RoomSnow RoomLoft SuiteRidge House
Early winter4 Dec to 19 Dec 2026€290€340€460€640
Festive weeks20 Dec 2026 to 6 Jan 2027, five nights minimum€380€440€590€820
High winter7 Jan to 28 Mar 2027€320€370€510€700
Spring snow29 Mar to 12 Apr 2027€270€310€420€590
The house rests13 Apr to 11 Jun 2027closed for the thaw
Summer12 Jun to 17 Oct 2027€260€300€410€560

The house

Larch from the north slope, snow from the sky.

Brenna was a hay barn until 2019. When we rebuilt it, we cut the larch from our own stand above the tree line, stacked it for four winters and let it silver where it faces the weather. Inside it stays honey coloured, and it smells faintly of resin when the stove is lit.

There is no lobby, no bar and no spa menu. There is a stube with a long table, a sauna that opens onto the snow, and eleven rooms that were designed from the bed outward.

Built
1912 as a barn, rebuilt 2019 to 2021 by Studio Prader, Bolzano
Timber
Larch, 212 trees, felled on the north slope, air dried four years
Heat
Wood pellet boiler and three tiled stoves, fed from our own forest
Owners
Lena and Tobias Rier, who live in the small house behind the barn

A day here

Nothing is scheduled. Everything happens at about the same time.

Bread

The wood oven has been going since six. Breakfast is on the long table until eleven.

First cabin

Six minutes on foot to the cable car. Skins and boards live in the drying room by the door.

Soup

Barley soup and a slice of speck in the stube for anyone who comes down for it.

Sauna

The sauna opens onto the terrace. The snow bath is exactly as cold as it sounds.

Dinner

Four courses from the valley, one sitting, wine from Terlano and the Adige.

Lights out

The ridge lights go off. On clear nights we lend blankets for the terrace.

Getting here

The last six kilometres are the slow part.

The road to Valtura is cleared every morning and closed to cars above the village in winter. Leave yours in our covered garage at the valley station and we bring you up in the house car.

  • Bolzano stationHouse shuttle at 11:00 and 16:00 daily, €45 per car, book with your room
    55 min
  • Innsbruck airportOver the Brenner by train or car
    1 h 50
  • Verona airportTrain to Bolzano, then the shuttle
    2 h 30
  • Munich airportDirect train to Bolzano five times a day
    3 h 40

Questions

What people ask before they book.

The house is small. Winter usually fills by the end of October.

Book direct for the rate on this page, breakfast and the sauna included. Or call: we still answer the telephone.