Milano Cortina 2026: Every Olympic and Paralympic venue for next year's Games
A breakdown of where every event and ceremony is taking place.
There are less than 300 days until the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics begin in Italy, and just over 300 until the Paralympics take centre stage.
Events will be held in five clusters across northern Italy — in Milan, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Val di Fiemme, Valtellina and Verona.
The majority of the venues and villages across both competitions are existing facilities or temporary structures, as the Olympic and Paralympic movements try to move away from former practices of building several new venues in every host city, many of which became vacant and derelict once the Games were over.
Here is a look at every single 2026 Olympic and Paralympic venue before they welcome the world next year for the biggest events on ice and snow.
Milano Cluster
One of the most iconic stadiums in the world will host the Olympic opening ceremony when crowds flood into San Siro on February 6, 2026. Home to Italian soccer clubs AC Milan and Inter Milan, the 75,000 seat stadium is the largest in Italy and will be celebrating its centennial in 2026, amidst potential plans to replace it. It reportedly won’t be fully demolished when the time does come to replace it due to its cultural significance in the city and around the world, and was kept as-is until at least after the Olympics.
Fiera Milano Rho, which will be known as Milano Ice Park during the Games, will host the Olympic speed skating events and be the secondary hockey arena. The popular fairground and trade show complex will be very busy, as it will also serve as the International Broadcasting Centre and the Main Press Centre.
One of the only new structures being built for the Olympics and Paralympics is Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena, which as its name suggests will be the primary site of ice hockey and para ice hockey events. The 16,000 seat arena will take over from Forum di Milano as the main arena in the city following the Olympics. Forum di Milano will host figure skating and short track speed skating at the 2026 Olympics.
Also being built from the ground up is the Milan Olympic and Paralympic Village, which will be turned into student housing after the Games. The main hub of television studios for the Games will be located in Piazza del Duomo, the main city square of Milan, which is the site of the Milan Cathedral.
Cortina Cluster
While the Games have never been hosted by Milan before, the town of Cortina d'Ampezzo is hosting for the second time after previously hosting in 1956. A pair of venues from those Olympics will return 60 years later, while one is being totally rebuilt.
Stadio Olimpico del Ghiaccio, or Olympic Ice Stadium, will host curling and wheelchair curling events next year, as well as the Paralympic closing ceremony. Olimpia delle Tofane, which hosted the men’s downhill event in 1956 and is a regular stop on the women’s World Cup circuit, will host the alpine and para alpine skiing events.
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Cortina Sliding Centre will host the bobsleigh, skeleton and luge events after the old track that closed in 2008 was demolished and rebuilt. There have been concerns that the track might not be ready in time to host events in 2026 despite assurances from the organizing committee that it will be and successful tests in March of this year, but the Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run in Lake Placid, USA has been named the backup plan just in case.
Anterselva Biathlon Arena will host the biathlon events and is another regular World Cup stop in its sport, while Cortina Para Snowboard Park will be used for the sport in its name — para snowboarding.
Fiames, a town north of Cortina d'Ampezzo, will host a temporary Olympic and Paralympic Village, while Anterselva will have a Village made up of local hotels — like several of the Villages will be.
Val di Fiemme Cluster
The Val di Fiemme, or Fiemme Valley, will be the site of two Olympic and Paralympic venues.
One is the Predazzo Ski Jumping Stadium in the town of Predazzo, which will host ski jumping and Nordic combined events. Not even ten kilometres away, the town of Tesero will host cross-country skiing, Nordic combined, para biathlon, and para cross-country skiing at Tesero Cross-Country Skiing Stadium.
There will also be an Olympic and Paralympic Village in Predazzo, hosted at the Scuola Alpina della Guardia di Finanza — a military school used for alpine training, the oldest such school in the world.
Valtellina Cluster
Italian athletes are hoping to dominate on the slopes at their home Games, and they will try to do so on one of the most iconic ski mountains in the world in Bormio. The Stelvio Ski Centre will host events in both alpine skiing and ski mountaineering, a new sport added to the Olympic programme for the 2026 Games.
Northwest of Bormio, the town of Livigno will host two competition venues — the Livigno Snow Park, which will be the site of freestyle skiing and Olympic snowboarding events, and the Livigno Aerials & Moguls Park — which will host the freestyle skiing events it shares a name with.
There will also be Olympic Villages in Bormio and Livigno for athletes competing in the above events.
Verona
While it won’t host any sporting competitions, the historic Verona Arena will be the site of both the Olympic closing ceremony and Paralympic opening ceremony.
Completed nearly 2,000 years ago, the Roman amphitheatre is considered one of the best-preserved structures of its kind, and has been renovated regularly over the past few centuries to maintain and improve it. In the summer it’s the host of the famous Arena di Verona Festival series of operas, and also regularly hosts musical performances.
This is going to be another shining example of the Games linking themselves to the history of host cities, a bar that the Summer Olympics in Paris set incredibly high in 2024.
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