# Dobbiaco / Toblach

The location is privileged. Dobbiaco lies just above 1200 metres at the beginning of the high Pusteria valley, the ‘Land of the Three Lavaredo Peaks’, right at the mouth of the Landro valley, which stretches southwards to the Cadore and Ampezzano, insinuating itself between the high peaks of the Dolomites. At the gates of the town is also a lake, a shallow basin formed by the Rienza, with a perimeter of 4.5 kilometres: a jewel nestled between the two natural parks of Fanes-Senes-Braies and Tres Cimas.
It is not difficult to understand why this town was one of the first tourist destinations in the region, already famous in the times of the Belle Époque and the Finis Austriae, when aristocrats, intellectuals and artists such as the composer Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) used to meet in Dobbiaco: people accustomed to the elegance of Vienna who demanded accommodation of the highest standard. It was for them that the ‘new’ part of the town was developed, with the railway station opened in 1871 and the Grand Hotel, built in 1877-78, now home to the Three Peaks Nature Park, which houses a large number of cultural initiatives.

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