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Overview
The first Distributed Museum of Literature in the Dolomites.
Cortina d'Ampezzo is not only one of the world's most evocative locations. It is also an extraordinary hub for writers, stories, literature, and cinema.
Accadde a Cortina is the Distributed Museum of Literature of the Dolomites. A fantastic itinerary of cultural signage, in the heart of the Dolomites, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Here you can browse the 18 signs located in the most significant places in the centre of Cortina and the Ampezzo Valley.
You can discover the special memory associated with each one. You can read the works of writers, the scripts of films, the verses of poets.
Did you know that Dino Buzzati loved the Croda da Lago more than any other of our mountains? Did you know that Ernest Hemingway met Fernanda Pivano in Corso Italia on an autumn evening in 1948? Did you know that Eugenio Montale dedicated a magnificent poem to Lake Sorapis? Did you know that E. M. Forster portrayed Cortina in thinly disguised form in one of his longer narratives? Did you know that the first to "discover" the Ampezzo Valley were women such as Amelia Edwards and Elizabeth Tuckett?
What other secrets about Cortina were known to Saul Bellow, Goffredo Parise, Vladimir Nabokov, Alberto Arbasino, Giovanni Comisso, Alberto Moravia, Guido Piovene, and dozens of others?
You can view each of these 18 signs online by browsing through them. You can search for them on the interactive map. Or select an author from the index of names. Or you can have the texts read to you by a great Italian actor.
For more details, please visit the official website.
32043 Cortina d'Ampezzo BL, Italia
