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Welcome to Sappada
This is the best guide for your holidays in Sappada - Dolomites
Sappada, called Plodn in its
historical dialect, is a small etnic island of Austrian origins. Established around the
year one thousand by a few german speaking families. The usage, the customs, the
architecture and the language itself, are a cultural patrimony that Sappada together with
its inhabitants (sappadini) have been able to maintain live for a century. The first
inhabitants of Sappada were shepherds and peasants, wood-cutters and iron miners which
they extractet from the sorroundin mountains. Sappada today, is a well known touristic
centre, that knows how to bind together ospitality, the freshness of the woods and the
wonderful scenary of its valley.This district embodies the very concept of colour, fading
as one season fades into the next one.
We lucky locals watch the slow changes in the landscape, as the rain transforms its pattern, snow dampens ist sounds, and the reds triumph in autumn.
This
cycle of season: from 1 st january to 31 st December.
Each season of the year has a small wonder in store for visitors.
Sport, nature, leisure, friendliness and the wrmth of the traditional cuisine, make the ideal mix for a holiday in the snow. Snow the magic of Winter in Sappada/ Plodn
Under the massive Perlba, Terze and Siera Mountains, there lies a secret hidden carefylly in the Sappada Valley. It is about hospitality at levels of excellence, in wintertime when the mountains, the woods and the gentle slopes are covered in snow. It is the reverse of the medal; the summer that proposes the bright colours of that time of the year through flowers, on one side and, on the other, the winter colours sometimes not so bright yet full of shades. From white to leaden and pale blue enhancing even more the show performed by the sun, at dawn and at sunset for the pleasure of the tourists and of the inhabitants alike.
Deep down, winter in Sappada is a natural wonder whiche the local tour operators make the most of in order to make your staying simply unforgettable.
Hotels, restaurants, and the like, flats and shops as well as other services and winter sport facilities offer the best one can find all across the Alps and Europe as for winter resorts menaged with flair, warmth, highly professional standards.
Sappada stands out also for the best sign systems devised for its roads, sports and tourist information centres. In other words this ski resort attracts tourists and mountain lovers because of the right belance between efficency end kindness.
If there is really a secret under the snow this must be the excellence shown by Sappada/Plodn winter afeter winter with its quality, prices, innovative ideas, environmental consciousness.
After alle the beauties of nature are really enviable here and deserve to be admired with devotion.
Sappada is not only a feast tor the eyes but also for the palate. And this is not only because of the local cousine experts, but also because of the success of this whole culture which is part of a strong and famous tradition, offred to us each year with a hectic series of events reviving all the historically original aspects of local life.
And now it is time to wish you a wonderful and peaceful holiday in Sappada: searching for a secret on class, everybody sitting around a cosy fireplace and maybe sipping a glass of mulled wine.