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Quellenhof Luxury Resort Lazise
Lazise, Italy · Quellenhof · High Luxury
Heinrich Dorfer spent decades growing his mother's small South Tyrolean inn into a Val Passiria resort before building the thing he actually wanted, on Lake Garda. Quellenhof Lazise opened in February 2019 among olive groves and cypresses, the first five-star hotel on the lake's eastern shore, its facades carrying stone columns that echo the medieval walls of Lazise just up the road. Seventy rooms, suites and pool villas share four pools kept warm the year round, including a twenty-one-metre adults-only sky pool on the roof and a natural swimming lake in the park.
- 70 rooms
- Opened 2019
- Architect: Marx & Ladurner
About Quellenhof Luxury Resort Lazise
- Luise Dorfer, who won the Tyrol Medal of Merit in 2010 for remaking South Tyrolean tourism, was frail by 2019 but came south anyway to watch her son's Garda resort open.
- The build took around twelve months and roughly thirty-five million euros, to designs by the South Tyrolean architects Marx and Ladurner.
- The Onda Spa covers two thousand square metres and is deliberately doubled: the adults-only sauna world has a mirror-image family version, so nobody has to compromise.
- The Panorama Restaurant has a roof that slides open, and chef Georg Costabei sends a six-course dinner out under it.
- The top accommodations are two-storey Penthouse Pool Villas with a private pool, sauna and whirlpool on their own roof.
History
The Quellenhof story starts in South Tyrol with Luise Dorfer, who turned a small family inn at St. Martin in Val Passiria into something much larger and was awarded the Tyrol Medal of Merit in 2010 for it. Her son Heinrich took over and kept building: a three-hole golf course that quickly outgrew itself, the rebuilt Forellenhof, the Alpenschlössel in 1999, a bypass tunnel to take traffic away from the hotel, the Parkresidenz with its suites and spa in the 2000s.
Lake Garda was his own idea. Quellenhof Luxury Resort Lazise opened on 28 February 2019 on the south-eastern shore, with an official inauguration on 4 May, and it was the family's first property outside South Tyrol as well as the first five-star hotel on that side of the lake. It took about twelve months to build at a cost of roughly thirty-five million euros, designed by the South Tyrolean architects Marx & Ladurner; the stone columns articulating the facades were drawn from the medieval walls of Lazise's old town, and sliding glass walls open the interiors onto the park with Monte Baldo behind. Interiors were handled within the owning family.
There are seventy accommodations: rooms, suites, Family Suites, Garden Pool Villas, two-storey Penthouse Pool Villas with a private rooftop pool, sauna and whirlpool, and fifty-square-metre dépendance apartments. The 2,000-square-metre Onda Spa has eight treatment rooms, a private spa suite and a hairdresser, with identical adults-only and family sauna areas. Four pools are heated all year: the rooftop sky pool at twenty-one metres, a twenty-five-metre sports pool with an indoor entrance, a children's pool with two slides, and a natural swimming lake in the grounds. The Panorama Restaurant, under a retractable roof, serves six-course dinners by chef Georg Costabei; Bistro La Piazza handles the lighter end. Guests are welcome from the age of four.
The setting
Lazise is the walled town just up the shore, and it holds a genuine record: an imperial diploma of 983 granted it complete civic autonomy, which makes it arguably the first free commune in Italy. Scaliger walls still ring it on three sides, with three medieval gates, and the Rocca Scaligera, built in a single campaign between 1375 and 1381 with five towers and a keep, sits above a small harbour enclosed by the walls themselves. On the water beside it stands the Dogana Veneta, built by Cangrande della Scala to shelter his ships, later a Venetian arsenal, then a saltpetre works, then from the early 1600s the customs house through which Venice's lake trade passed. Verona is about twenty-two kilometres away, and Monte Baldo closes the view across the water.
Experiences
- Lazise old town and promenade — Medieval town wall, alleys to the main square and a promenade with bars; free shuttle from the Quellenhof Lazise to the centre.
- Gardaland — Italy's number one amusement park with rollercoasters such as Oblivion, Raptor and Blue Tornado, water rides and a 4D cinema.
- Parco Natura Viva Zoo — Large modern zoo dedicated to endangered species, with a safari park and five continent sections.
- Sirmione — Peninsula with moated castle, Grotte di Catullo Roman ruins with frescoes and mosaics, and sulphurous healing springs.
- Verona — Old town with the world-famous arena, Ponte Scaligero, Piazza delle Erbe and Casa di Giulietta; summer opera in the arena.
- Lake Iseo and Monte Isola — Car-free island of Monte Isola on Lake Iseo, reachable by bus, Vespa or boat to Loreto and San Paolo.
Amenities
- 360-degree virtual tour of the resort
- Free shuttle from the Quellenhof Lazise to the centre of Lazise
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