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Trading since 1303, the Ladinser family's since 1745 — 29 individual rooms above San Candido's old square, a rooftop spa, and a host who pours his own cellar.
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Historic Hotels
Need To Know
- 29 rooms, each individually furnished, from Biedermeier to contemporary
- Open across both seasons; the kitchen rests mid-April to late May and in October, when the house runs bed-and-breakfast
- Dress runs mountaineer by day, a touch more formal for the candlelit dinner — a blazer or dress wouldn't go amiss
- Our Favourite Rooms: the Biedermeier rooms in the old house; a Superior facing the village roofs
- Free weekly guest programme: Franz's wine tasting, the cooking class with chef Rocco, and a hike guided by the host himself
- Rooftop spa free 16:30–19:30 (and on request beyond); year-round entry to the Acquafun pool centre included, bikes in summer
- Free transfer from San Candido station, three minutes away
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 11:00.
We Love
- Seven centuries of trade — the building took its market charter in 1303, the first innkeeper is on record in 1462, and the family tree painted on the wall ends, for now, at Franz and Verena.
- Franz Ladinser's cellar — about 2,000 bottles across 400 labels in the oldest room of the house, with a free weekly tasting the host leads himself, sometimes blindfolded. The cellar door is always open.
- The rooftop spa — Finnish and hay-scented saunas, a steam bath and a pebble path above the village roofs, with the relaxation room's windows full of Innichberg and passing clouds.
- Rocco Ferraro's table — a daily-changing candlelit three-course menu with a vegetarian version every night, a buffet of local produce alongside, and a weekly cooking class in his kitchen.
- San Candido's car-free centre at the door — the Romanesque collegiate church and baroque San Michele a stroll away, the Haunold lift at the village edge, and the Tre Cime up the valley.
Key Features
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Location
Address
Via P. P. Rainer 2, 39038 San Candido, Innichen, South Tyrol, Italy
Travel Info
San Candido has its own railway station, with a free hotel transfer on request. By car: Bolzano about 1h45, Innsbruck around 2h, Venice 2h30–3h. The hotel sits in the traffic-free old centre; parking is arranged nearby, and the village is walkable.
Last Updated: 2026-06-04
Expert Review
Origins
The Orso Grigio has been in business longer than the Americas have been on European maps — the hotel's own favourite measure. The building beside San Candido's square took its market charter in 1303, and wagoners and merchants crossing the Pustertal found room and board 'At the Orso Grigio' from the start. In 1462 one Conrad Maus appears in the records as the inn's first named proprietor; the Maus, Dinzl and Peintner families carried it through the centuries that followed — fires, plague and the Thirty Years' War among them — handing it on roughly every hundred years.
Then the handing-on stopped. In 1745 the Ladinser family took the inn, and they have never let it go: Franz Ladinser and his daughter Verena run it today as the ninth and tenth generations, the family tree painted on the wall inside. It is among the oldest inns in the Alps and the oldest house in Innichen still doing what it was built to do.
The trick of the place is that the history is furniture, not theme. Typewriters, sewing machines and wardrobes built for gowns stand about the corridors because they never left; the 29 rooms run from Biedermeier to clean-lined contemporary because the house has always adapted; and the newest layer — the rooftop spa added in 2018, its saunas looking over the village roofs to the Innichberg — continues the oldest habit the Orso Grigio has: keeping up with its travellers.
Top Secret
Ask Franz for the cellar. The oldest room of the house holds his two thousand bottles, and once a week he leads a free tasting down there — biting, smelling, comparing, preferably blindfolded. The family also runs Flora Gourmet, their own delicatessen up the street, where the kitchen's fresh pasta and the whole wine list can be carried home.
The Review
San Candido may be the most civilised base in the Dolomites — a traffic-free market town with a Romanesque collegiate church, the Haunold lift at its edge, the Sesto valley and the Tre Cime a short ride up, and a railway station that makes the whole Pustertal carless. The Orso Grigio sits in the middle of it as it has for seven centuries, and arrival sets the tone: the painted family tree, Franz's welcome over wine, a house that treats its 720 years as company rather than exhibit.
The 29 rooms are genuinely individual — Biedermeier antiques in some, country wood in others, contemporary lines in the newest — and the day's rhythm belongs to the village and the mountain: skiing and the great cross-country network in winter, hiking and free bikes in summer, the Acquafun pools included year-round for families. The rooftop spa earns its evening slot — Finnish and hay-scented saunas, a steam bath, a pebble path, and the relaxation room's long view across the roofs — small, calm, and free in the late-afternoon window when legs need it.
But the house's centre of gravity is the table. Rocco Ferraro cooks a daily-changing candlelit three-course menu — vegetarian version always, vegan willingly — flanked by a buffet of local produce, breads and a parade of oils and vinegars, with the Bären-Bar handling easy lunches and the village dropping in for both. Franz's cellar supplies the rest, by the glass or by the weekly blindfold. Nine generations in, the Ladinsers' formula is unchanged and unimproveable: feed travellers well, pour better, and let the house's age do the talking.
