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A House with History
For more than half a millennium the Gasthaus Reichhalter has shaped life in the pedestrian zone of Lana.
The whole house1477 Reichhalter
A house dating from 1477 in Lana — eight rooms, a café, and a kitchen that defines the stay.
A house that is more restaurant than hotel — and that is precisely its strength. Small, pared-back, historic, but not nostalgic. The 1477 Reichhalter feels like a place that has grown over centuries: honest materials, old structures left deliberately visible, and a kitchen that defines the stay.
The Build
The year it was built is in the name. An inn from 1477 that stayed an inn — with rooms above it, not the other way round.
The Rooms
Dark wood, a parlour, a few rooms above. Nothing that wants to make the room larger than it is.
The Table
Eight tables, no ninth. South Tyrolean cooking, without the word being said. The cellar stays open longer than the kitchen.
The Cut
- Eight tables, no ninth
- No second sitting in the evening
- Never tried to be a hotel
"Which is why the wrong people rarely sit at the next table."
Five reasons that stay
- The house dates from 1477 — and was not polished smooth in renovation, but deliberately left raw. Old structures, honest materials, no staging.
- Restaurant first: guests come primarily for the food. The kitchen is regional, modern, focused — and you feel it in every course.
- Only eight rooms — boutique in the genuine sense. No bustle, no mass, no standardisation. Each room feels different.
- Lana rather than Merano: quieter, more authentic, less touristy. The right place for this concept.
- No spa of its own — a deliberate decision. The focus is on food, atmosphere and place; the large spa is 350 metres away at the Schwarzschmied.
What makes the house
Rooms & Architecture
Pared back to the essential
With just eight rooms, it is easy to feel at home here.
The whole house
A Kitchen From Its Own Fields
Earthy and refined
At the 1477 Reichhalter, the kitchen is all about authenticity and the seasons.
The whole houseLana sits near Merano — quieter, less touristy, surrounded by orchards and vineyards. The house stands in the historic centre, just 350 metres from its partner hotels Schwarzschmied and Villa Arnica, and makes a very good base for South Tyrol: hiking, wine and nature without the crowds. Rail travellers alight at the Burgstall/Lana stop and are collected free of charge; the nearest airports are Bolzano, Innsbruck, Verona, Bergamo and Milan.
The 1477 Reichhalter is family-run and part of the family of houses around the art-of-living and yoga hotel Schwarzschmied and the Villa Arnica. Klaus Dissertori revived the original idea of the good old "Gasthaus" as a gathering place for the community and brought it into the present: restaurant first, the hotel as its extension. Less a classic hotel operation, more a curated place with a personal signature.
Kitchen and cellar
Restaurant & Café
A small but refined café and restaurant with a seasonal menu that changes every month. Fifty seats spread across two parlours and — the favourite spot in summer — the terrace beneath the vine pergola. Breakfast, lunch, dinner and aperitivo; awarded by Falstaff for its kitchen.
Espresso Bar & Rooftop Terrace
The ground-floor espresso bar is a meeting point over coffee and house-made croissants from the in-house pâtisserie. For warm evenings: the small rooftop terrace with views over the roofs of Lana, reserved exclusively for hotel guests.
The house, without words
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Eight tables, no ninth.
Restaurant first — the hotel is the extension.
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