…that the refuge is not just a destination, but a place that helps you reach your next destination…
This is our vision of the refuge, a place for everyone to enjoy, for protecting and guarding the mountain, for sharing stories, for finding rest and refreshment. For us, the Rifugio Scarpa is the ideal place to put this into practice and to help our guests to find a mountain reality that is still authentic.
We wish to make our passion, expertise and energy available to hikers and guests and to the local community. We want to welcome them with a warm meal and lots of friendship.
For those who don't know this beautiful corner of the world we would love to share the knowledge, prepare local specialties, recommend routes, tell the stories of tradition. The management, Lucia and Alessanro
Back in the days
The refuge owes its name to the original owner, the Venetian painter Enrico Scarpa and to the engineer Ohannes Gurekian who met here, linked by a great passion for the mountains.
Enrico Scarpa (1891-1935), on 12 September 1912, made the chalet accessible by using it as a private studio and dedicating it to his daughther, born from his marriage to the noblewoman Itala Teresa Casari. Upon the death of her father, she transformed the chalet into a first refuge for hikers.
The engineer Gurekian, on the other hand, having escaped the Armenian genocide, following a period of study in Asolo (TV), found hospitality in Frassenè Agordino and quickly fell in love with it. Here he founded the first Pro Loco in Italy and subsequently became president of the CAI section of Agordo, designing the alpine works at the Carestiato and Duran refuges as well as the renovation and expansion of the Scarpa refuge.
In the sixties it became the property of the Agordo section of the CAI which adapted it as a refuge following suitable and subsequent adaptation and expansion interventions.
Indeed, in recent years, the Agordina Section of the CAI has always believed in the potential of the Scarpa-Gurekian Refuge, carefully investing all the possible resources of its budget, today as one hundred years ago.Source: Giorgio Fontanive