Winter Olympic Games: 6 February – 22 February 2026 | Winter Paralympic Games: 6 March – 15 March 2026
Winter Olympic Games: 6 February – 22 February 2026 | Winter Paralympic Games: 6 March – 15 March 2026
Cortina d’Ampezzo plays a leading role in the XXV Winter Olympic Games. Not merely a stage for sporting competitions, it is the vibrant heart of a global event that brings together sport, culture, landscape, and the Alpine lifestyle. Here, where Olympic history left an indelible mark in 1956, the spirit of the Games comes alive once again in a contemporary, sustainable and globally open dimension.
Cortina 2026 represents the meeting point between sporting excellence and territorial identity. The Dolomites, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, become the natural setting for a narrative that speaks of beauty, respect for the environment, innovation, and hospitality. The Ampezzo community, together with the wider territorial and institutional system, plays an active role in this story: an Olympics that is lived, shared and interpreted.
The Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games will involve athletes from over 90 countries, turning the international spotlight on some of the most iconic locations in the Alps. Cortina d’Ampezzo will host the women’s alpine skiing, curling, bobsleigh, skeleton and luge competitions—disciplines that find here one of their most authentic and symbolic natural settings. Legendary slopes, renewed venues, and landscapes unique in the world will help write a new chapter in Olympic history.
The excitement of the Games will begin on February, 6th 2026 with the Olympic Opening Ceremony at San Siro Stadium in Milan and will conclude on February, 22nd with the Olympic Closing Ceremony at the Arena in Verona. Cortina d’Ampezzo, too, will experience its own symbolic moment, with the lighting of the Olympic cauldron in the heart of the town.
Cortina embraces a role of great responsibility: welcoming athletes, media, and international visitors while offering an authentic experience, aligned with Olympic values and with the global reputation of the Queen of the Alps. A unique opportunity to demonstrate how tradition and future can coexist, leaving a legacy that goes beyond the Games and strengthens Cortina’s role as a flagship destination of the Alps and of Italy.
