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A 1925 family house on Cogne's protected Sant'Orso meadows, facing the Gran Paradiso glacier — 39 antique-filled rooms, three private chalets and a 1,200 m² alpine spa.
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Need To Know
- 39 rooms, including 4 suites and 7 junior suites, plus 3 fully private chalets in the grounds
- Closed from mid-October to the beginning of December
- Children welcome; the spa beyond the main pool and hot tub is reserved for ages 14 and over, open 08:00–20:00
- Our Favourite Rooms: the suite with the open-air bath under the stars; the chalets Lou Beu and La Cheminée
- Le Petit Bellevue, Ristorante Bellevue, Bar à Fromage, La Brasserie du Bon Bec on Cogne's square, and the terrace over the meadows
- Free parking and a shuttle to the ski lifts and villages
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- The position the law made unrepeatable — a 1926 decree froze all building on the Sant'Orso meadows, leaving the Bellevue alone on the grass with the Gran Paradiso glacier filling its windows.
- Le Petit Bellevue — six tables, each dressed to a different historical era, hung with 19th-century paintings; chef Niccolò De Riu won the star back in the house's centenary year.
- The 1,200 m² spa — two pools, six saunas and bio-saunas, two steam baths, a salt cave, an ice cave and a clay cellar, with thermal water and the mountains in every window.
- The cellars — some 15,000 bottles across 2,000 labels under sommelier Rino Billia, and a vaulted cheese cave below the Bar à Fromage where the house ripens its own alpine wheels.
- Fourth-generation family keeping — Maître de Maison Laura Roullet runs the house her great-grandparents opened in 1925, its rooms furnished from a near-museum of alpine antiques.
Key Features
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Location
Address
Rue Grand Paradis, 22 - 11012 Cogne (AO) - Aosta Valley - Italia - P.Iva 00419710074
Travel Info
By car: Turin airport about 1h45, Geneva 2h45, Chamonix via the Mont Blanc tunnel 1h20; the valley road climbs from Aosta to Cogne in around 30 minutes. Free parking at the hotel, and a shuttle runs to the ski lifts. Cogne itself is walkable.
Nearby Places
Access by car Turin airport : 1h45, Chamonix 1h20, Geneve airport: 2h45
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Last Updated: 2026-06-04
Expert Review
Origins
The Bellevue opened in 1925 as a mountain house with the comforts of the grand hotels of its day, set on the Sant'Orso meadows at Cogne with the Gran Paradiso glacier straight ahead. A year later, the position became unrepeatable: a 1926 law forbade all further building on the meadows to preserve the landscape, and the Bellevue has stood alone on the grass ever since — the protected national park, Italy's oldest, beginning effectively at the door.
What followed is a century of one family. Four generations of the Jeantet-Roullet line have kept the house, the present Maître de Maison, Laura Roullet — trained at the hotel school in Lausanne — carrying it from her great-grandparents Paola Jeantet and Piero Roullet. Their century of collecting shows everywhere: the rooms and salons are furnished from a near-museum of alpine antiques, carved cradles and painted chests and pieces reaching back to the sixteenth century, so that the house reads less as a decorated hotel than as a family attic raised to high art.
The centenary year delivered its own ending. In the Michelin Guide Italy 2026, Le Petit Bellevue — the six-table restaurant at the heart of the house — won back its star under executive chef Niccolò De Riu. One hundred years in, the house is still gathering.
Top Secret
One suite keeps a bath in the open air — drawn hot, on the private terrace, under the stars, with the dark mass of the Gran Paradiso in front of you and nothing else awake on the meadows.
The Review
Cogne is the quiet way into the Alps — a meadow basin at the head of its own valley, capital of nothing but cross-country skiing and the gateway to the Gran Paradiso, where the ibex came back from the brink. The Bellevue is of a piece with it: it does not perform; it keeps. The salons run on wood fire and carved furniture, the library is used rather than staged, and the staff operate with the settled warmth of a house where many of the guests are on their tenth visit.
The rooms hold the line — alpine antiques, balconies on the glacier or the meadows, a handful with their own hot tub or sauna — and the three chalets in the grounds give families and the privacy-minded their own keys. The spa is the modern exception, and a serious one: 1,200 square metres of pools, six saunas, steam baths, a salt cave, an ice cave and a clay cellar, big enough that the house never feels its size. Children share the main pool and hot tub; the rest stays adult, and quiet.
But the long suit is the table. Le Petit Bellevue, six tables each dressed to a different era, took back its star in the centenary year under Niccolò De Riu; the Ristorante Bellevue carries the main dining; the Bar à Fromage serves the mountain's cheeses above the vaulted cave where the house ripens them; and the Brasserie du Bon Bec holds the hotel's corner of Cogne's square. Behind all of it sit the kitchen garden and Rino Billia's fifteen-thousand-bottle cellar. Come for a week in the snow or the wildflowers; the eating argues for the week.
