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Sustainability in the mountains
Our duty to guarantee a right to future generations! The nine Dolomite mountain groups, spanning 142,000 hectares and given 85 hectares of border areas for a total of 231,000 hectares, are…
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Easter Cuisine in Northern Italy
Easter in Italy, or Pasqua, is a huge holiday, and depending on who you ask, it rivals Christmas in its importance for Italians.
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Featured Guide: Meet Marika Favé
Marica Favé is a UIAGM/IFMGA Professional Mountain Guide based in the Dolomites’ Val di Fassa. We recently had the opportunity to catch up with Marica… learn why she loves the Dolomites plus…
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Dolomites Recipe: Schlutzkrapfen
Schlutzkrapfen – South Tyrolean Ravioli Filled with Spinach and Ricotta Schlutzkrapfen, or Ravioli Tirolesi, is a regional pasta specialty from the Tyrol – an historic region in the Alps that…
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Dolomites Cuisine: Casunziei
Stuffed “Pillow” Pasta of the Dolomites Casunziei. Mezzelune. Schlutzkrapfen. This half-moon-shaped pillow-stuffed pasta, along with its many names, is one of the signature dishes in Northern…
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Dolomites Recipe: Cajoncìe da Fighes
Cajoncìe da Fighes – A Specialty of Val di Fassa Cuisine Cajoncìe da Fighes (Casunziei of Figs), like the entire category of casunziei, has a variety of stories about of how it first came into…
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The Dolomites in the Movies!
The Dolomites are regularly touted as one of the most beautiful mountain landscapes on earth, so it should come as no surprise that they’ve been featured in many movies!!! Prominent Actors…
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Dolomites in the Movies: Cliffhanger
Billed as “The Height of Adventure,” the 1993 American action-adventure film Cliffhanger is the story of a mountain climber, played by Sylvester Stallone, who gets caught up in a U.S. Treasury…
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Dolomites in the Movies: For Your Eyes Only
The Illustrious James Bond, the fictional British MI6 Agent 007, is no stranger to Italy. He’s been “on assignment” in Venice, Sardinia, and, of course, in the Dolomite Mountains! For Your…
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Dolomites in the Movies: The Legend of Tarzan
Tarzan in the Dolomites? Imagine our surprise when we learned that the latest Tarzan film – The Legend of Tarzan (2016) – included the Dolomite Mountains’ landscape… Isn’t Tarzan supposed to…
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