“When it comes to food culture today, our Heimat, our homeland, often extends no further 
than the pizzeria around the corner. People don’t take time for food these days. And when they do, the cult of the collective media leads our event-hungry, immediate-gratification society into the globalized fast-food world – pronto,” says Paul Grüner, creator of the Ö as in Knödel vision.
This visionary hotelier and mountain-refuge owner, who hails from the Senales Valley, is dead set against our hectic fast-food world, championing instead the traditional Knödel, soft tourism and celebration of everything homegrown.
At the historical Bella Vista Mountain Refuge, atop the Senales Glacier at an elevation of 2,845 meters, guests enjoy authentic Alpine charm – with the option of sleeping in an igloo or at a former customs house – and sweat away their cares inside Europe’s highest-elevation outdoor sauna. At the Golden Rose Hotel and at the Palla Bianca Residence Suites, both in Certosa, simplicity and naturalness reign in place of a world that has become increasingly plastic and brightly colored. Grüner’s line of skincare products, Glacisse, harnesses the power of the Alps for new wellbeing.
Because in keeping with Paul Grüner’s credo: To live well is to live in authenticity.