Predazzo Ski Jump
— — the held breath at the top of the in-run.
Not only on a wall.
“Two ramps of white run down to the valley floor at Predazzo, where Val di Fiemme has sent jumpers off the lip since 1989. The town below is small, about four and a half thousand people, with the Latemar standing over it. In February 2026 the Olympics come here, and a place that has already hosted three world championships gets its turn at the rings. Most of the year the towers stand empty against the snow line. The arena is built for one long second of flight, and waits the rest of the year for it.
Predazzo Ski Jump, on ceramic.
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Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
The place, in three passes.
The Giuseppe Dal Ben arena sits on the floor of Val di Fiemme at the edge of Predazzo, a Trentino town of about 4,500 people set where the Avisio river meets the Travignolo stream. The valley runs through the Dolomites of northern Italy, with the Latemar massif, a UNESCO World Heritage site, rising to the south. The complex opened in 1989 and holds two competition hills, a Large Hill rebuilt to HS143 and a normal hill, along with smaller training jumps. The nearest larger town is Cavalese, about twelve kilometres down the valley; the cross-country stadium at Tesero lies a few kilometres to the west.
The arena opened in 1989 and ran its first World Cup the following winter. Since then it has held the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships three times, in 1991, 2003 and 2013, along with the 2013 Winter Universiade. For the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics it was rebuilt at a cost of around 36 million euros, with a new judges' tower, an upgraded snowmaking system and competition lighting; capacity for the Games is about 5,000 spectators. It carries the ski jumping events and the jump segment of the Nordic combined, which it shares with the cross-country stadium at Tesero. On 6 February 2026 it is one of four sites carrying the opening ceremony.
Predazzo lies at about 1,018 metres on the valley floor, where the snow season runs roughly from December into March. The World Cup and championship calendar falls inside that window, and the arena now carries a snowmaking system installed for the 2026 Games to hold the in-runs through warm spells. Above the town the Latemar ski area works between 1,540 and 2,388 metres, part of the wider Val di Fiemme network. The structure is at its fullest in the cold months. In summer the hills go quiet and green, the towers still visible from the road into town, the jumps waiting for the snow to come back.