Alpe di Siusi
— the green that runs all the way to the rock.
Not only on a wall.
“The largest high meadow in the Alps, laid out under the Sassolungo like a held breath. In late June the grass fills with wildflowers; by October the larches along its edges turn the colour of a struck match. Cars are turned back at the valley between nine and five, so the people who walk it have mostly come up by the cable car and spread out until the plateau swallows them. The same Dolomite stone that sharpens behind Tre Cime stands at the far edge here, only softer, kept at arm's length by all that grass.
Alpe di Siusi, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
The place, in three passes.
Alpe di Siusi, or Seiser Alm in German, is the largest high-altitude alpine meadow in the Alps, spreading across roughly 52 square kilometres of the western Dolomites in South Tyrol, northern Italy. It rises between about 1,680 and 2,350 metres and sits in the comune of Castelrotto, above the town of Siusi. The Sassolungo (Langkofel), at 3,181 metres, and the Sciliar massif close the plateau along its northern and southern edges; the eastern portion lies inside the Sciliar Nature Park, established in 1975. The Dolomites that surround it were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2009.
The meadow keeps a calendar. In late spring and early summer the grass fills with wildflowers; by midsummer the hay is cut and cattle graze the high pastures, a working rhythm that has shaped the plateau for centuries. In autumn the larches at its margins turn gold before the first snow. Through winter the rolling terrain becomes one of the largest cross-country ski areas in the Dolomites, with trails groomed across ground that is pasture the rest of the year. The shoulder seasons are the quiet ones: roughly November to early December, and April through late May, the lift closes and the meadow empties.
During the high season the access road from the valley closes to private cars between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., so most visitors ride up on the Seiser Alm Bahn cable car from Siusi, a climb of about fifteen minutes. From the summer of 2026, the two plateau car parks, P1 Spitzbuehl and P2 Compatsch, require an online reservation booked up to six days ahead, with a daily fee of thirty euros. Compatsch, at the western edge, is the main hub: the lifts, the hotels, and the trailheads that fan out toward the Sassolungo and the Sciliar all begin there.