From the 1956 Winter Olympics to Milano–Cortina 2026, this story follows Cortina’s shifting idea of “legacy” to Villaggio ENI, a modernist workers’ utopia by Enrico Mattei and Edoardo Gellner, now caught between preservation, second homes and fading Olympic dreams.
An Olympic Dream?
From the 1956 Winter Olympics to Milano–Cortina 2026, this story follows Cortina’s shifting idea of “legacy” to Villaggio ENI, a modernist workers’ utopia by Enrico Mattei and Edoardo Gellner, now caught between preservation, second homes and fading Olympic dreams.