Cortina and other Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy General Tips

Cortina and its church

Favorite Thing: Cortina has a picturesque square, dominated by the white church spire and flanked by two massive mountain ridges: to the east lies Cristallo (9,613 feet) and Faloria (7,690 feet); to the west, Tofana (9,317 feet) and Pocol and Socrepes (7,487 feet) areas.

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General Tips: Church of St. Filippo & Giacomo

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Written by sandysmith

on Aug 5, 2003

Cortina's bell tower

Favorite Thing: The church of St. Filippo & Giacomo was built in 1775. There are sculptures by Andrea Brustolon, paintings by Francesco A. Zeiler, Giuseppe Zanchi, Luigi Gillarduzzi and Giuseppe Ghedina. Between 1851 and 1858 the tower bell was built. This is today one of the symbols of Cortina.

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General Tips: Moutain Scenery

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Written by sandysmith

on Feb 25, 2003

cortina snob? no thats my own coat

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Favorite Thing: Cortina has wonderful views of the Tofane group and Monte Cristallo and even as non skiers we enjoyed going up the cable-cars here to enjoy the scenery and watch the skiers. Tip - buying a days ski pass was cheaper than buying separate cable-car tickets. Rumour has it that you can hire fur coats here and pretend to be a snob!

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General Tips: Cable car Trips

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Written by sandysmith

on Aug 5, 2003

Cortina cable-car

Favorite Thing: Riding the cable-cars is always a favourite thing for me :-))

An ascent to the summit of one of the two main cable-car trips requires two changes en route and an uphill ride through three separate cable-car segments. The first station is Col Druscie, at 1,753m (5,752 ft.); the second is Ra Valles, at 2,447m (8,027 ft.) and the top is Tofana di Mezzo, at 3,214m (10,543 ft.).

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General Tips: View of Tofane

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Written by sandysmith

on Aug 5, 2003

Tofane

Fondest Memory: Gazing up at Tofane from the second cable-car station was just awesome. I'd really like to come back here in the summer sometime.

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General Tips: Faloria

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Written by sandysmith

on Aug 5, 2003

view of Cortina

Favorite Thing: The Rifugio Faloria is situated at 2123m at the top of the Faloria cable car and looks out onto the entire Cortina basin. It has a wide terrace ideal for sunbathing and has a handy restaurant for lunch.

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General Tips: Cinque Torri

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Updated by sandysmith

on Aug 15, 2004

Dave and the five towers

Favorite Thing: This group of mountains - the 5 towers - we passed on our way into Cortina and saw from the cable-car trips. Torre del Barancio, Lusy, Romana, Grande, Terza, Quarta and Inglese are the names of of the "Five Towers".
They are located between the passes of Falzarego and Giau are have become more renowned since Sylvester Stallons filmed the mountain climbing film "Cliffhanger" here.

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General Tips: Tre Cime

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Written by sandysmith

on Aug 5, 2003

Tre Cime

Fondest Memory: From one of the cabl-car trips there was a lovely view over to Tre Cime - one of the most famous symbols of the Dolomites, if not the whole Alps. There are actually more than 3 peaks, but from the north one can only see the 3 tallest ones.

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General Tips: Lago di Misurina

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on Aug 5, 2003

Lago di Misurina