Cortina is mountains and culture: every year it hosts meetings with great personalities from politics, journalism and cinema, and the public and private museum and artistic offering is varied: the open-air Museum of the Great War; the Rules Museum in the historic Ciasa de Regoles building; the Rinaldo Zardini Paleontological Museum; The Ampezzo Ethnographic Museum and the Mario Rimoldi Museum of Modern Art. There are many art galleries scattered throughout the country.

The social life of Cortina is always lively and extends along Corso Italia, one of the most famous Italian shopping streets.

There is also no shortage of musical, cultural and folkloristic celebrations:

• in September, Cortina hosts the Delicious Festival Dolomiti.
• Of particular importance is the gastronomic event “Queen of Taste”
• Cortina Fashion Week
• Saint Nicholas and the Krampus
• A mountain of books
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