And it’s getting ready to relive its glory days as it gears up, along with Milan, to host the 2026 Winter Olympics, a redux of the 1956 games that put Cortina on the international ski map.

Lindsey Vonn has fallen toward the end of a World Cup downhill training run in Italy and appeared slightly banged up.

However Cinque Torri-Lagazuoi has visible evidence of war-time emplacements, and is part of an extensive First World War ski tour marked on a dedicated piste map. Cortina’s three main ski areas ...