Dolomites, worth knowing.

Fun facts about Dolomites

1. 1Locals have a word for the moment the Dolomites catch fire at sunset and glow red, orange and pink: enrosadira.Source: Val Gardena-Gröden Marketing; Wikipedia
2. 2Val Gardena has its own language. It's a Ladin valley where most locals grow up speaking Ladin, so the town of Ortisei is also called Urtijëi.Source: Val Gardena-Gröden Marketing; Wikipedia
3. 3Cortina d'Ampezzo, the 'Queen of the Dolomites', has hosted the Winter Olympics twice: in 1956, and again with Milan in February 2026.Source: Cortina d'Ampezzo official tourism; Wikipedia
4. 4During World War I, the front line between Italy and Austria-Hungary ran right through the Tre Cime peaks.Source: Drei Zinnen Dolomites; Wikipedia
5. 5Val Gardena is a valley of woodcarvers. The craft began on long winter nights around 1600, and carved figures from here have been shipped all over the world.Source: Val Gardena-Gröden Marketing; Wikipedia
6. 6Much of the forest and pasture around Cortina belongs to everyone at once. The Regole d'Ampezzo, an ancient community of the valley's original families, own it in common and still look after the local nature park.Source: Regole d'Ampezzo; Cortina d'Ampezzo official tourism

Things to do in Dolomites

• ◦Ride the cable car from Ortisei up to Seceda, around 2,500 metres high, where the ridge drops away in sheer cliffs and the view reaches as far as Austria's Grossglockner.Source: Seceda AG; Val Gardena-Gröden Marketing
• ◦Circle the Tre Cime di Lavaredo, the three giant rock towers of the Dolomites, on a hut-to-hut loop from Rifugio Auronzo past Rifugio Locatelli and its view of the north faces.Source: Drei Zinnen Dolomites; Wikipedia
• ◦Lago di Braies is the emerald-green lake you've seen on your feed. In summer, cars get in only with a reservation, so come by bus, bike or on foot.Source: Drei Zinnen Dolomites; Wikipedia
• ◦Take the cable car up Lagazuoi and explore World War I tunnels and trenches dug into the mountain, now an open-air museum.Source: Lagazuoi; Wikipedia
• ◦Go all the way around a mountain. The Sellaronda loops the Sella massif over four passes, Campolongo, Pordoi, Sella and Gardena, on skis in winter or by bike in summer.Source: SellaRonda Skimarathon; Wikipedia
• ◦Take a rowing boat out on Lago di Braies and drift across the emerald water beneath the cliffs.Source: Drei Zinnen Dolomites; Wikipedia

Questions to bring to Dolomites

From Sojourn's journeys. Ask one over a long dinner or on a slow walk, and let the place do some of the work.

Going together

• When do you feel most like yourself?
• What does rest actually look like for you?
• What is one thing you wish we did more of?

Going solo

• What is the first thing this place is showing you that you didn't expect?
• What does this version of you know that the home version tends to forget?

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