Cortina's Olympic venues after 2026

Cortina has hosted a Winter Olympics twice. The first was in 1956, when the ice stadium opened the Games and the Tofane held the alpine races. The second was in February 2026, shared with Milan and with valleys that are not this one. A ski trip now is not a ticket purchase. It is a week in a town that has put the race fences away and gone back to ordinary winter, with three buildings and one famous piste that are different because of what happened on them.

The Olympic Winter Games ran from 6 to 22 February 2026. The Paralympic Winter Games ran from 6 to 15 March 2026. If a listing still offers “Games packages” for those dates, it is selling a memory. The useful question is what a visitor can see and ski in the seasons after.

The Tofane, which you can ski

Women’s alpine skiing was at the Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre. The organising committee’s venue note describes a course on the Tofana di Mezzo that was already a World Cup hill, with a downhill start at Rifugio Pomedes, a super-G start at Rifugio Duca d’Aosta, and finishes a short distance from the centre of town. The same hill held the alpine races in 1956. The 2026 women’s schedule raced here was: downhill on 8 February, team combined on 10 February, super-G on 12 February, giant slalom on 15 February, and slalom on 18 February.

Men’s alpine skiing was not on this hill. Olympics.com’s alpine preview put the men at the Stelvio Ski Centre in Bormio and the women at the Tofane. Ski mountaineering, new to the Olympic programme, was also at the Stelvio. A guide that puts “the alpine skiing” in Cortina without the word “women’s” is blurring the map. Bormio is a different valley and a different trip.

For the winter of 2026/27 the town’s own note says skiers return to the Olympia delle Tofane as a public run. That is the legacy that matters if you came to ski. It is a steep, famous piste. Treat it with the respect you would give any downhill that has a name. The areas page explains how it sits above Socrepes, which is where beginners belong, and how the Freccia nel Cielo lifts reach the higher mountain. Race operations closed terrain in February 2026. They do not close it now. Ordinary wind and snow still do. The season calendar is the poster, and the live board is the morning.

Para alpine skiing came back to the same centre from 7 to 15 March 2026, with downhill, super-G, alpine combined, giant slalom, and slalom across vision-impaired, standing, and sitting classes. The lift company in Cortina published that calendar and also a para snowboard schedule at the Cortina Para Snow Park, with snowboard cross on 8 March and banked slalom on 14 March. Those were Paralympic days. The mountain you ski in January 2027 is the public version.

The ice stadium, which you can look at

The Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium stands on Via Alberto Bonacossa 1. The venue guide gives it 3,000 seats. It was inaugurated in 1952 for the 1956 Games and held that year’s opening ceremony. The building’s outline was kept. Before 2026 the electrical system, the changing rooms, and the accessibility works were updated. It hosted all three Olympic curling events: mixed doubles, women, and men. Mixed doubles sessions began on 4 February, before the opening ceremony on 6 February. The women’s gold was on the last morning, 22 February.

At the Paralympics the same building held wheelchair curling, and on 15 March 2026 it held the Paralympic closing ceremony. The opening ceremony of those Games was in Verona. Cortina’s role was the ice and the goodbye.

For a ski visitor the stadium is a town landmark, not a match ticket. If the building is open for public skating or a club session in a given week, that fact will be on the local notice, not in a 2026 ticket brochure. Walk past it. Do not promise a child a sheet of ice you have not confirmed for that Wednesday. The centre of town has plenty to do if the door is shut. The evening is the street.

The sliding centre, which is a track

The Cortina Sliding Centre is new. It was certified in November 2025 and stands where the 1956 piste ran. The venue history the organisers tell is the local one: sliding in the valley since 1923, and Eugenio Monti, the “Flying Redhead”, who took two silvers on the old track in 1956 and later won Olympic golds in 1964 and 1968. The 2026 programme on that new track was luge, skeleton, and bobsleigh, from the first luge runs on 7 February through the four-man bobsleigh on 22 February.

A sliding track is not a tourist ride you should assume is open because the Olympics used it. Training, test events, and any public visit are whatever the operator publishes. This guide will not invent a timetable or a fare. If you want to see the track, look up the centre’s own notice for the week you are in town, and treat a closed gate as a complete answer. The skiing does not depend on it.

What was never here

Milan held the ice hockey, the indoor ice sports, and the opening ceremony at San Siro. Verona held the Olympic closing ceremony on 22 February in the Arena. Antholz-Anterselva held biathlon. Livigno held freestyle and snowboard. Tesero and Predazzo held the Nordic events and the ski jumping. Those places had their own transport plans, including Olympic shuttles that are not your 2027 ski bus. When you read a “Milano Cortina” itinerary that tries to do a hockey game and a Cortina ski day before dinner, you are reading a map of the bid, not of the roads.

The spectator advice published before the Games, park-and-ride and shuttles from Dobbiaco or Ponte nelle Alpi, was for ticket holders in February 2026. Your ski week uses the ordinary coaches in the getting there guide.

Looking ahead, without borrowing the next Games

The next Winter Olympics are in the French Alps. The organising committee, Alpes 2030, states the Olympic dates as 1 to 17 February 2030 and the Paralympic dates as 1 to 10 March 2030. The venue map has already moved once, including the ice events. Read it on alpes2030.org rather than in an article that still describes an older cluster. Cortina’s job in that story is to be the Games that just happened, a reference for what a shared, multi-valley Winter Olympics feels like from one host town. It is not a rehearsal space for 2030, and this site does not pretend to be a French Alps guide. The skiing between now and then is the point of the areas and the pass.

Come for the Olympia run if you ski at that level, for Socrepes if you do not, and for a town that has put the barriers back in the warehouse. The races were the interruption. Winter is the habit.