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12 unusual facts about Val Gardena


Annerösli Zryd

Zryd won a gold medal at the 1970 World Championships in Val Gardena, winning the Downhill event.

Billy Kidd

At the 1970 World Championships in Val Gardena, Italy, Kidd won the gold medal in the combined and the bronze in the slalom.

Figurine

Genre figurines of gallant scenes, beggars or figurines of saints are carved from pinewood in Val Gardena, South Tyrol (Italy), since the 17th century.

Franz Heinzer

Heinzer won at the world's most famous downhill venues: Kitzbühel (3x), Wengen, Val Gardena (2x), Garmisch, Val-d'Isère, Aspen, Lake Louise, and St. Anton.

Ingrid Lafforgue

Lafforgue won a gold medal at the 1970 World Championships in Val Gardena, winning the slalom event.

Jean-Noël Augert

Nicknamed "Rosko", he was however a specialist of the slalom discipline, in which he won three World Cups in 1969-1972, and in which he won a Gold medal at the 1970 World Championships in Val Gardena.

Josef Moroder-Lusenberg

The Museum of Val Gardena in Urtijëi exhibits more than 30 of his oil paintings and watercolours.

Josef Theodor Moroder, named the Lusenberger (28 May 1846 in Urtijëi – 16 February 1939 in Urtijëi) was a painter and sculptor, the most prominent artist of the Moroder family from the Grödenthal in South Tyrol now the Val Gardena in Italy.

From his numerous sketch books we can see how precisely he observed nature, landscape and specially the Tyrolean and alpine lifestyle in Val Gardena.

Konrad Bartelski

Bartelski stunned the ski-ing world during his performance at the World Cup at Val Gardena, Italy on 13 December 1981 when he finished the downhill in 2 minutes 07.52 seconds, just 0.11 behind the race winner Austria's Erwin Resch.

Konrad Bartelski (born 27 May 1954) is a former British alpine ski racer who produced the best result by a Briton on the Alpine Skiing World Cup circuit in 1981 by coming within 0.11 seconds of winning a World Cup downhill race at Val Gardena.

Patrick Russel

He also won two silver medals in slalom and combined at the 1970 World Championships at Val Gardena, Italy.


Martin Adolf Bormann

On 15 April 1945, the school closed and young Martin was advised by a party functionary in Munich, named Hummel, to try to reach his mother in the still German-occupied hamlet of Val Gardena/Gröden, near Selva/Wolkenstein in Italian South Tirol.

Parish church of Urtijëi

The Parish Church of Urtijëi located in the town of Urtijëi in Val Gardena in South Tyrol, Italy is dedicated to the Epiphany and to Saint Ulrich.