| Page Views: 1,492 Last Visit to Dolomiti: December, 2003 | A highlight of the Alps by lotharlerch - last update: Apr 21, 2006 |
Worlds best architecture | 3 Zinnen - 3 Cime, seen from an other perspective |
What is the best architecture in the world? the famous architect Le Corbusier was asked and he answered "the Dolomites". It is indeed difficult to object.
The name Dolomites (Dolomiti in Italian, Dolomiten in German) is very new. Throughout all the ages they were called "Monti Pallidi" ("Bleiche Berge" or "Bleak Mountains") according to the colour they show in the middle of the day, in the morning and especially in the evening they show an incredible firework of colours, called "enrösadüra" in Ladin, the archaic local language, still spoken in all valleys around the Sella in the northwestern Dolomites, while from North the German and from the South the Italian language has reached many of the easier accessible areas under the last thousand years. The geographical names almost everywhere still show who have everywhere been the first here. |
| Marmolata and Vernel from Bindelweg |
|  | Mountains for all leisure needs Almost all what you might wish to find in the mountains - you find it here. Great easy panoramic roads, many of them open all the year round, provide the access to hikes through easy and gentle territory with incredible views all around, this territory allows under winter excellent skiing well comparable to other top regions of the Alps. The rocks themselves offer innumerable climbing routes in all degrees of difficulty. You can even choose between extremely popular and overrun areas and only 30 km from them areas where you can be sure not to meet anybody during a whole day even under the infamous "Ferragosto", the top of the Italian tourist season. |
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| Pros: | "one of the most impressive parts of the Alps" | | Cons: | "quite a fraction of the Dolomites is overcrowded" | | In A Nutshell: | "A great experience for everybody loving mountains" |
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globetrott Sun Apr 23, 2006 00:10 UTC
What a great natural scenery & excellent pics ! Nature is always the very best architect ! | icunme Fri Apr 21, 2006 23:30 UTC
Really beautiful photos here - will return again. Ciao, Carol | diana23 Thu Nov 24, 2005 14:42 UTC
Great Dolomiti page!!! I've been there in the summer!! | mignonne Sat Sep 17, 2005 16:08 UTC
What an impressive page with beautiful photos.I imagine it to be a breath-taking site!! Happy travels! |
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