Historical Village Tour Ortisei

Where does the tour go?
We leave from Museum Gherdëina and head in the direction of Antoniusplatz square, carrying on left down Reziastraße past Villa Venezia, Villa Argentina and the art school up to the Blaues Haus. Here, we turn left again into Stufanstraße and walk past Villa Runggaldier, Villa Margherita, Villa Rifesser and Villa Grohmann in the direction of the parish church. 
Shortly before the church, a small path goes down to the promenade. We get to the valley station of Secëda cable car through La Curta underpass. Then we cross Romstraße towards Raschschötzer valley cable car station and go past Haus Doss and Haus Costa. Once there, we walk up Raschötzstraße and pass Haus Lenert, Villa Rudolfine and Villa Martiner on our way. At the top, we first go up the hill to the left and then onwards via Scurcià Straße to Sonnenburg and Haus Lusenberg. Then we head back downhill to the village centre. At the junction with Muredahügel, where Scuracià Straße turns into Sneton Straße, we see Plan de Mureda, the oldest villa in the village, on the left-hand side. At the end of the road at Panabrücke bridge, we see Haus Bugon and Haus Pana, the former seats of two successful toy distributors. The church across the bridge marks the end of our circular tour.

Objects on this tour:
- Museum Gherdeina (deep insights into the thousand-year history of Gröden)
- Villa Venezia (first mills, then sawmills and finally an art studio)
- Villa Argentina (a mammoth task, a country, a house)
- "Cademia" art school (founded as a state-subsidised training workshop for wood carvers)
- Wall panelling Paris 1925 (prize-winning wall panelling)
- Relief composition of nativity scenes (the nativity story - carved and painted)
- Cesa Bruma (Villa Stillheim - blue house belonging to award-winning altar builder)
- Villa Runggaldier (Rothaus, Engelsburg - the red angle's castle)
- Villa Margherita (historical settlement site, important altar-building workshop)
- Villa Rifesser (jugendstil and freedom fighters)
- Villa Grohmann (turn-of-the-century villa belonging to a sculpture painter and gilder)
- Haus Doss (early painter's workshop for sacred art)
- Haus Costa (manufacturing headquarters and first bureau de change)
- Haus Lenert (ecclesiastical sculptoral art for four generations)
- Villa Rudolfine (a declaration of love and a gold medal)
- Haus Scurcià (sculptors and disco music)
- Villa Martiner (the villa belonging to a Chamber Supplier to the duchy)
- Villa Sonnenburg (from the old mill to turn-of-the-century house)
- Haus Lusenberg (Josef Moroder's sculpture workshop and painter's atelier)
- View of St. Ulrich in 1860 (retrospective view of St. Ulrich)
- The organ grinder (social commentary with organ grinder and monkey)
- Haus Plan de Mureda (from summer house to company headquarters)
- Pattern board of jointed dolls ( a hit export from Gröden: dolls with jointed limbs)
- Haus Bugon (seat of on of the oldest manufacturers of wooden toys)
- Scissors sharpener and bucket carrier (impressive range of so-called "white goods"