Culture
Get Away From It All in a Tiny Cube in the Italian Dolomites
This wee hotel gives a front-row seat to the stars and rosy auras of Italy’s famed mountains.
When life gets to be too much to bear, let it be known there’s a glass cube high in the Dolomites where you can be alone with your thoughts, nature’s beauty, and (if you desire another’s warmth) perhaps an abominable-snowman roommate.
The Starlight Room Dolomites is a mini-hotel that kind of looks like a cute outhouse on skis. It rests on snowy ground in the Cortina d'Ampezzo resort some 6,700 feet up in the Dolomites, a mountain range in northern Italy that’s technically part of the Alps. The room was designed by Raniero Campigotto, a manager at the nearby Rifugio Col Gallina, and costs 300 euros per night (dinner and breakfast included).