Welcome to Dobbiaco in the "Community of the Three Peaks"

Profile of Dobbiaco

Height above sea level: 1,256 m
Inhabitants: 3.274
Guest beds and camping parking spaces: 5.828
Location: The Door to the Dolomites-"UNESCO World Natural Heritage"
Symbols: Three Peaks, Baroque parish church and Gustav Mahler, Red Tower and Herbst Castle
Harbours: Santa Maria (1,337 m) and Valle San Silvestro (1,440 m)
Characteristic: Cross-country and hiking paradise

What else you should know about Dobbiaco ...

Dobbiaco is located at the entrance to the wild-romantic Fiscalina Valley, from where you can enjoy a fantastic view of the renowned "Three Peaks". The village is therefore also called the "Community of the Three Peaks". The village looks back over hundreds of years of touristic tradition, and offers a varied selection of holiday offers. The closeness to the most renowned peaks in the Dolomites, the good climate, and the cultural variety, as well as the sports offer only some of the reasons why Dobbiaco is one of the most popular destinations in South Tyrol. The unique landscape offers chapels, old heritage farms, rural culture goods, blue mountain lakes, shady forests, and extended nature resorts with unique flowers. Santa Maria is renowned as a place of pilgrimage in the Puster Valley.
 
In Dobbiaco you can leave the hustle and bustle of everyday life behind you, and enjoy the serenity in the mountain world, and the magic of unspoiled nature. On the other hand, Dobbiaco is the ideal terrain for sports and even top-class sports. Be it the big World Cup competitions in winter, the cross-country competitions, or the varied international track-and-field events in summer. With regard to mass sports Dobbiaco offers cross-country skiing, winter hiking, alpine skiing, snowboarding, snow-shoe hikes, ski touring and ice-skating in winter, and hiking, cycling tours, mountain hikes, climbing, fishing and tennis in winter.
The Gustav Mahler Music Weeks held in honour of the great composer, provide a cultural highlight every summer.
 
Dobbiaco is located near Austria, and characterised by Tyrolean customs, and the German dialect, which is still the mother tongue of locals. Italian is the second language in South Tyrol, hence South Tyroleans speak German and Italian.