Culture Hostel
Towards to Val Venosta means approaching a valley from within. These texts tell of places, paths, and encounters in Val Venosta — of guests who come to us, and of what they find here. Not an overview, not a travel guide, but observations from a lived space.
Sometime in the 19th century, a large bird was sitting on top of the church tower in Glurns.Someone asked a man from Laatsch what kind of bird it was. He looked up, thought for a moment — and said: a stork.Whether it really was one, nobody knows to this day. What we...
Long before the first cyclist climbs the pass in spring, the road usually still lies hidden beneath metres of snow. Hairpin after hairpin it rises from Gomagoi, climbs past Trafoi towards the Franzenshöhe and then winds its way through the high-alpine landscape up to...
Winter. FinKa “The snow hatches the landscape,” writes Lydija Tschukowskaja (Going Under, 1972). Here, the snow draws a softly falling curtain onto the wooden wall of the terraces and in front of the landscape. The view outward dissolves into the indistinct. The...
Everything began when I myself hadn’t even seen the light of day.And yet, an unassuming groundbreaking in Mals would go on to change my lives.No one could have guessed that this moment already held the blueprint for our future as FinKa hosts. 1968 – a year that would...
