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San Candido church culture
San Candido is not only in a beautiful natural landscape, but is also rich in cultural and historical treasures.
For example, the very famous Roman Collegiate Church, with its famous crucifixion scene, where Jesus is portrayed not as a tortured man, but as a victor over death and suffering, as the Risen Lord and the Son of God.
Next to the Collegiate Church was built the San Michele Parish Church which is, with its varied and richly decorated ornaments, a real treasure from the Baroque and Rococo.
Highly recommended are also the Franciscan Convent, the Chapel of Altötting and the Holy Sepulchre Church, which consists of 3 chapels.
Enjoy sightseeing in San Candido!
Leitlhof’s walking tipp
Leitlhof’s walking tipp: 
Early summer is an ideal time for hiking in the Dolomites of the Alta Pusteria Valley, UNESCO Natural World Heritage. Here, in this wonderful landscape, you can choose between romantic mountain lakes, high alpine tours, round tours and easy walks in the valley. Our walking tip: the round-excursion from San Candido to the Baranci hut and from there to the Thermal Source and return to San Candido. In 1 hour you arrive from the sports center Erschbaum to the Baranci hut at 1,499 meters. If you want you can also take the chairlift. At the mountain station you take path no. 7 down to Prati Ferrara meadow and you arrive back to the village of San Candido via the thermal sources. For all the round tour you need about 3 hours, if you take the chairlift about 2 hours.
Mountainbike paradise Alta Pusteria
The Alta Pusteria Valley / Dolomites is a real paradis for every friend of the mountainbike and for every one who still will get it. Here you find a lot of tours, comfortable ones for families as well as demanding rides for professionals. And, obviously, here you find also the highlights for mountainbikers, the races: Südtirol Dolomiti Superbike, in program on 11th of July 2010 and the mountainbike race Cortina-Dobbiaco on 25th of July 2010. Special offers for every one, for families, for singles, for sport enthusiastic you will find from the 28th of May 2010 at the Panorama Hotel Leitlhof in San Candido.
The Tre Cime Card
Also during this summer the Alta Pusteria offer the Tre Cime Card during the period of 29th of May to the 2nd of October 2010. With this card you can enter for free in different museums and you can use for free cable cars, busses and trains in the Alta Pusteria Valley. The card is valid 7 days and it is available for a price of 42,- Euros (+ 3,- euro caution). For children we have special conditions.
The traditional Eastern bread
Eastern is a period with a lot of traditions. One of the traditions is the Eastern lunch with hard-boiled eggs, ham and bacon, sausages, asparagus with a special dressing sauce and horseradish and, not to forget, the traditional Eastern bread.
The traditional Eastern bread you can also bake at home. You need:
550 gram farina
40 gram yeast
100 gram sugar
1/8 liter milk
2 yolks
1/2 a teaspoon of sal
100 gram butter
lemon peel of half a lemon
Preparation:
Make a little dell into the farina and give the yeast, the sugar and the tepid milk at that. Coat it with a little bit of farina and let repose the paste for about 20 minutes. In this time the paste will reduplicate. After that add the sugar, the sal, the lemon peel, the creamy butter and the yolks and mix it really good. Let repose the paste so that it can reduplicate again. After that you mix the paste for the last time and you cut it into three equal pieces. Then form it all to a braid, brush it with mixed eggs and milk and bake it on 200 so that it get a nice golden-brown color.
We wish you good success.
Foto: shutterstockGourmet days at the Leitlhof
South Tyrol and especially the Alta Pusteria Valley are a region which offers an excellent cuisine. Here you find traditional dishes as well as Italian specialties. Typical of the South Tyrolean cuisine are the dumplings which you can get salted or dulcet. But see or taste for yourself during the gourmet days at the Panorama Hotel Leitlhof in Innichen in program from 07th of March to the 02nd of April 2010.
Dolomites: World Heritage Site
Now, in autumn, the days get shorter, the foliages changes the color, the sun does not gleam anymore so hot from the heaven. An ideal season to make some excursion in the Dolomits, World Heritage Site since the end of June 2009. Now, it is also accurately defined: the foundation, which, by order of the UNESCO, has to administrate and to protect the World Heritage Site of the Dolomites, will be based in every of the five regions. Always after three years the presidency will rotate between Bolzano, Belluno, Udine, Trieste and Pordenone. Our hotel, the Panorama Hotel Leilhof, open from the 3rd December 2009 and we are very glad to welcome you in this marvelous landscape of the Dolomites.
Museumobil Card: museums, trains and buses with one ticket
A new offer for guests interesting in culture: the museumobil card. The card combines the South-Tyrol-wide travel card and the admission to South Tyrols’s museums. Holders of this card can explore 82 museums and use public transport for three or seven days. So you can, comfortable, start with train or bus in San Candido and visit for example the Museum of local traditions in Teodone, the castle of Tures or the museum of Rudolf Stolz. The card costs 16,- Euro for 3 days and 22,- Euro for 7 days (adults).
