1800
“L’albergo”al ghiacciaio dei Forni
della famiglia Bozzi.

It was possible to be accommodate at Rifugio Forni – previously known as ‘the house of the innkeeper at the Forni Glacier’ – since the half of XIX Century, as it is showed from some prints written in German language. Later, in 1896, the host family (Buzzi family) upgraded and enlarged the structure, making it a lodge located at an altitude of 2.200 meters a.s.l. provided with modern comfort and facilities.

Antique posters, brochures and postcards are now collected at the lodge as a remain of the past, while a scale model made of chalk representing the Ortles-Cevedale mountain range has been built in the first years of XX Century. All of these object and artifacts are currently available at the Rifugio Forni, to be admired and consulted in order to discover the natural environment surrounding the hut at that time.

23 mag 1915
3 nov 1918
The white war

During the years of the First World War, the hut was used as a barracks for the alpine troops fighting in the neighboring mountains of the Ortles-Cevedale range.

Later, after been restructured and restored as a lodge, Rifugio Forni has become an important starting/departure point for naturalistic and ethno-historical excursions, involving the discover of the nearby trenches, walkways and paths which serves in the ‘White war” – the name that has been given to the conflict fought in the Alps among the Kingdom of Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire front.