The Remnant, Olivia Rao: During a recent trip to the South Tyrolean Dolomites in Northern Italy, my family and I spent the night in Cortina D’Ampezzo – a town high up in the mountains which became wildly popular in the world of sports (especially in skiing and biking) after hosting the 1956 Winter Olympics. Originally part of Austria before being ceded to Italy at the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, the South Tyrol remains very Austrian in its culture and traditions, with its major languages being German, Italian, and a local language called “Ladin,” itself divided into dialects by village. Story is here.
