1936 On the Continent

every point of the course. If you are in a hurry you can make the following round trip in a single day: Trento—Madonna di Campiglio—Male—Trento.
Bolzano—Merano
    An hour’s train journey from Trento will take you to Bolzano, the centre of the Dolomite district. Bolzano is one of the most charming towns in northern Italy, and is a favourite resort of lovers of mountain scenery and mountain sports. Bolzano has some excellent hotels (Bristol, Laurino), while good food and excellent beer can also be obtained at the Cantina del Municipio and the Ca’ dei Bezzi restaurant.
    It you visit Bolzano you must, naturally, also go over the Dolomite district. Formerly a tour through the Dolomites was so expensive that only the most affluent could afford it, but to-day even the tourist of moderate means can easily afford to make a tour comprising theVal Garden—Cols de Sella—Cortina d’Ampezzo route, or any other interesting excursion. The former tour takes seven and a half hours and the visitor is taken over the ground in comfort and at low cost by the vehicles of the Societa Automobilistica Dolomiti. Information concerning the excursions may be obtained at the C.I.T. offices at Piazza Vittorio Emanuele III, while information in matters relating to climbing is supplied at the Alpine Club at Via Principe di Piemonte.
    While at Bolzano you may also wish to visit Merano, this pearl of climatic health resorts. In the spring and autumn the luxury and medium-class hotels of Merano are full of life and movement. There are a number of sanatoria where patients are treated by the foremost European specialists in tuberculosis. Notable social events are the horse-races and golf competitions held in conjunction with the lottery draw. The golf club of Merano will open its new course during the present year.
The Dolomites
    I know some tourists who are in such a hurry that they have no time to see anything. But even these must, under pain of the severest “sanctions,” see the Dolomites. The fantastic cliffs, grim abysses, magnificent mountain ranges cannot fail to impress themselves indelibly on the memory of anyone who has seen them. The district can be approached and explored from two directions. (1) Starting by omnibus from Bolzano and travelling to Cortina d’Ampezzo, and thence through Dobiacco-Fortezzan, returning by train to Bolzano. Or (2) starting by omnibus from Bolzano for Cortina, then passing through Misurina to Calalzo, from where a train will take you in comfort to Venice.
    For a protracted stay in the Dolomites we recommend in the first place Cortina d’Ampezzo, which is one of the loveliest resorts in summer, while in winter it is popular on account of its lovely and not too difficult ski-ing grounds. There are so many excellent hotels in Cortina d’Ampezzo that it is really difficult to choose among them. The Miramonti and the Parc Faloria are only open in the summer, while the Savoy is open all the year round. Among the medium good-class hotels we can recommend theCroce Bianca. Owing to its first-rate Viennese cuisine and liberal table it has become popular with the hungry ski-ers.
    Somewhat quieter but just as excellent as Cortina are Col de Costalunga (about 5,000 feet), Canazei (4,500 feet) and Col du Pordoi (7,000 feet). At all these places the tourist will find excellent hotels, pleasant company, reliable, well-tried guides and ski trainers. At Cortina the Miramonti has a nine-hole course at an altitude of 3,700 feet. Total length of the course is 6,000 feet.
Vicenza—Padua
    To return to the cities, if—which we refuse to believe—you have been careless enough to miss the Dolomites and have travelled straight on from Verona, you are advised to stop for a few hours at Vicenza and walk among the Gothic, Renaissance and Venetian palaces, or at Padua, the city of St. Anthony. At Vicenza you will find a magnificent Basilica by Palladio, an interesting timber-built theatre by the same master, and a most interesting municipal museum. However, Padua offers more interesting sights than Vicenza. The magnificent palazzos and churches are simply full of pictures by the great masters of the Renaissance period. The churches include the Madonna dell’ Arena, with Giotto’s frescoes and S. Antonio, with the sepulchre of St. Anthony. The Padua museum contains some beautiful Titians and Giorgiones.
    Barely an hour’s journey by train is Venice. The train passes through Mestre Station before it reaches St. Lucia