Evening in Cortina

Early evening flips the script: pistes empty, dining rooms fill, and the Tofane blush with the enrosadira glow around 6:30 pm in winter. Between Piazza Angelo Dibona and the Basilica SS. Filippo e Giacomo, window-light spills across Corso Italia, from Franz Kraler’s polished displays to the 1858 campanile rising 73 meters above the chatter. Monte Cristallo feels within arm’s reach, and yet Faloria’s base is just 1.1 km up a sharp lane from the center.

From there, it’s all about flow. Collected at your hotel on Via Roma or Campo di Sopra, you move with no parking stress, the car waiting at each stop. With a dedicated driver in Cortina d’Ampezzo, taste speck-and-genepy risotto at Ristorante Tivoli (six minutes from town) or polenta carbonera in a lakeside chalet near Chemin de Lago, then wander the arcades while your driver handles the roads, detours, last-minute bookings, and a prompt pickup at the Faloria lift if the skies clear.