The essence of Cortina, and its buvette. At the legendary bar with its universally renowned barman, Hemingway enjoyed martinis and red wine when he was not in his room working on Across the River and Into the Trees and Burton and Taylor quarrelled over their vodkas. The princes of Hohenzollern, Italo Balbo, the Shah of Persia and Soraya, the English mountaineer John Ball, and the painters Compton and Egger-Lienz all came here. Set up in the home of Gottardo Manaigo when he was entrusted with the staging post, it survived German occupation and became the Allied headquarters. Fashionable and stylish, it has precious local period furnishings. Five generations.
