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ELEVATE – Rise with Excellence! Cortina Fashion Weekend
CortinaFrom December 5th to 8th, the Queen of the Dolomites lights up for the 15th edition of an iconic event that celebrates Made in Italy.
Discover moreSaturday, December 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM at the Alexander Girardi Hall: Meeting with Patrick Baumgartner, Giada Andreutti, Gianfranco Rezzadore, Diego Menardi, Roberto Zandonella, Carolina Levorato, Enrico Gandini.
With Francesco Chiamulera
Free admission until seats are filled.
The Ampezzo Valley holds a century of ice stories: legendary tracks, local enterprises, brilliant mechanics, and above all, athletes who challenged speed in a constant dialogue between ingenuity and risk. Together, we embark on a journey into the heart of this tradition, through rare images from the Historical Archive of the Dompé Foundation and those of the Bob Club Cortina: from photographs of the World Championships in 1950 to the modernist sketches of the 1956 Olympic programs, from the Bob Club membership cards to letters from pilots and blacksmiths, up to the sublime images of figure skaters training at the Ice Stadium, and glimpses of the Olympic Cortina of '56 — the hockey players in front of the Post Office Palace, the bobsledder Franco Dompé, the fireworks from the closing ceremony.
Together with the local figures Gianfranco Rezzadore, Diego Menardi, and gold medalist Roberto Zandonella, we relive the years of the white-blue racing cars, the artisan companies from Ampezzo (Pompanin, Dandrea, Colli & Costantini) that built sleds requested everywhere; of the brakemen who made history, like Sergio Siorpaes, partner of Eugenio Monti and Renzo Alverà.
Among vintage correspondences (“Our racing car has arrived…!”) and the poetry of ice and cold, a world emerges where snow was also a workshop, laboratory, dream. In a dialogue with today’s athletes, Olympians Patrick Baumgartner and Giada Andreutti and the very young Carolina Levorato and Enrico Gandini, to narrate the anticipation for 2026, with the new track “Eugenio Monti.”
An afternoon of memories and discoveries, between photographs, stories, and voices of a Cortina that looks to the future from the past, with the same passion that made its bobsled legendary.
