White shimmers the linen on the clothesline, greeting the wayfarers as a sign of warm originality as Hotel Briol surfaces between meadows and forests above the small village of Barbiano in the Isarco Valley. In this rural idyll on 1,310 metres, Johanna Settari, great-grandmother of today’s owner, once had her wealthy husband endow her with one piece of land for each of their 15 children. The villas erected thereon are still cosy oases of relaxation in close touch with nature.
Briol
Barbiano, South Tyrol
Location
on 1,310 m, overlooking Valle Isarco
Architecture
1928 South Tyrolean summer house
Food & drink
breakfast with homemade products, afternoon cake
Hosting since
1889
Characteristic features
well-lit rooms, larch wood floors, wash bowls
From May to October, the Briol’s unique atmosphere and architectural 1920s gems
make the place ideal as a summer retreat with nature and quietude, with a forest sauna and historic furniture
and with culinary treats such as self-made jams and Briol’s own honey.
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Rooms of serene simplicity on 1,310 metres.
»We were free up here on the mountain, we could be as we were.«
Johanna Fink
Hostess at the Hotel Briol
A conversation with
Johanna Fink about the Briol in Tre Chiese, her great-grandmother and ‘Mountain Mother’ Johanna Settari, and top-class guests recovering the ground beneath their feet in Hubert Lanzinger’s gesamtkunstwerk high up on the mountain.
