Aman Rosa Alpina

Hugo Pizzinini's grandfather opened a guesthouse at San Cassiano in 1939 and called it Alpenrose. Thirty years on, Hugo's father made it Rosa Alpina, the same flower in Italian, and in 2025 Aman put its own name in front. Jean-Michel Gathy rebuilt it in pale oak and stone, with timber slats down the balconies and bedrooms panelled in pale wood, beams and all. The heated pool, 20 metres long, runs out on a terrace above the slope with the village church's onion dome just beyond, and in the snow it steams. In the dining room, round wooden lanterns hang over long banquettes, and the windows are full of frosted trees.

Recommended for skiers who would rather be on the pistes than getting to them, and for families who can do without a kids club. The Piz Sorega cable car is 300 metres away, with a free shuttle in winter, and beyond it more than 1,200 kilometres of Dolomiti Superski runs; the hotel also arranges husky sledding and ice climbing in the Serrai di Sottoguda gorge. In summer the trails of the Fanes-Senes-Braies Nature Park start in the village. Under-12s sleep free on rollaway beds and there is babysitting, though the spa keeps an area for over-16s, and the Aman Suite has two bedrooms, each with its own bathroom. Dinner is pizza and handmade pasta at The Grill, or shabu-shabu at Enju, and the Di Vino Room has a cellar of more than 25,000 bottles. In the basement of the village museum, a model cave bear sleeps in a rebuilt corner of the Conturines cave, where the bones of its species were found in 1987: San Cassiano's residents at least 30,000 years before the Pizzininis.