Hotel Ancora, Renzo Rosso’s love letter to the Dolomites

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History hangs in the air in Cortina d’Ampezzo. The little ski village with big cachet in Italy’s Dolomites was for much of the past four centuries under Habsburg rule, effectively making it part of Austro-Hungary. Even Venice ceded to the Kingdom of Italy before Cortina did, in 1866. Who’s to say whether that hybrid provenance – Austro-Hungarian gentility,…