Category: Hiking & mountain tours

At around 56 km², the Seiser Alm is the largest high-altitude alpine meadow in Europe, a wide, gently rolling meadow landscape at about 1,700 to 2,300 m. Against the backdrop of the Schlern, Langkofel and Plattkofel it is a hiking paradise in summer and a cross-country and skiing paradise in winter. To protect the landscape, the…

The Pragser Wildsee is considered the most beautiful of the Dolomite lakes. Its turquoise-green water, the wooden boathouse and the steeply rising Seekofel wall make it one of the most photographed places in the Alps. Because of the large crowds, access is time-regulated in summer; an easy hike leads around the lake.HighlightsTurquoise-green lake with…

The Rosengarten is one of the best-known Dolomite massifs and famous for the Enrosadira, the intense rose-red glow of its walls at sunset. Legend has it that King Laurin turned his rose garden into petrified rock. The massif with the Rosengartenspitze offers demanding via ferratas and hikes across scenic alpine pastures.HighlightsEnrosadira, the rose-red alpenglow of the wallsLegend of…

The Brenta group is the only Dolomite massif west of the Adige and part of the Adamello-Brenta Nature Park. It is famous for its bold towers and for the Bocchette via ferratas, among the most classic in the Alps. The starting point is the fashionable resort of Madonna di Campiglio.HighlightsFamous Bocchette via ferratas through the vertical wallsAdamello-Brenta Nature Park with brown bearsResort Madonna di…

The Pala group is the largest massif in the Dolomites and impresses with a vast, moon-like high plateau at around 2,600 m, ringed by rugged peaks. The cable car from San Martino di Castrozza to the Rosetta opens up this plateau comfortably. The area is part of the UNESCO World Heritage and the Paneveggio Nature Park.HighlightsVast, almost moon-like high plateau…

At 4,061 m, Gran Paradiso is the only four-thousander lying entirely on Italian soil. The protected area around it was established in 1922 as Italy’s first national park, originally to save the Alpine ibex from extinction. Today the park is one of the best places in the Alps to watch ibex and chamois…