{"id":1104,"date":"2026-06-07T19:45:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T17:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/item\/lago-di-sorapis\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T11:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:04:10","slug":"lago-di-sorapis","status":"publish","type":"citadela-item","link":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/item\/lago-di-sorapis\/","title":{"rendered":"Lago di Sorapis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size:1.15em;line-height:1.6;color:#3a352f;\">At around 1,900 m, the Lago di Sorapis glows an unreal turquoise from fine glacial flour and is reachable only on foot. The popular hike from the Passo Tre Croci leads over partly exposed, cable-secured sections to the lake at the foot of the Sorapiss walls. Bathing is not allowed, for protection.<\/p>\n<h2>Highlights<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Unreal turquoise glacial lake<\/li>\n<li>Hike from Passo Tre Croci<\/li>\n<li>Backdrop of the Sorapiss walls<\/li>\n<li>Reachable only on foot<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Good to know<\/h2>\n<table class=\"at-vergleich\" style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:14px;\">\n<tr style=\"background:#ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;width:34%;font-weight:600;\">Elevation<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;\">around 1,900 m<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#fafaf8;\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;width:34%;font-weight:600;\">Colour<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;\">turquoise from glacial flour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;width:34%;font-weight:600;\">Approach<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;\">from Passo Tre Croci (secured sections)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#fafaf8;\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;width:34%;font-weight:600;\">Note<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;\">Bathing not allowed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h2>Practical info<\/h2>\n<div style=\"background:#f3f1ec;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;border-radius:10px;padding:18px 20px;\">\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0;line-height:1.55;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Getting there:<\/strong> By car or bus to the Passo Tre Croci near Cortina.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0;line-height:1.55;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Best time:<\/strong> July to October (otherwise snow\/ice on the path).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0;line-height:1.55;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Cost:<\/strong> Access free; parking payable (please verify).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0;line-height:1.55;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Safety:<\/strong> Partly exposed, cable-secured sections; sure-footedness needed, not for small children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:12px 0 4px;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Tips:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:0;\">\n<li>Start very early, the path and car parks are overrun in summer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Background &amp; History<\/h2>\n<p>Lago di Sorapis lies hidden in a high valley of the Ampezzo Dolomites and is regarded as one of the finest mountain lakes of the entire Alps, above all because of its unreal, milky-turquoise colour. This luminous blue is created by the finest rock flour, which the glaciers of the Sorapiss group grind off and which, suspended in the meltwater, refracts the sunlight in a special way, a phenomenon known as glacial milk that makes the lake change colour according to the incidence of light.<\/p>\n<p>The path to the lake follows in part old mule trails and leads through a landscape in which the traces of the First World War can still be found, for the rugged Dolomite peaks were once a contested front line between Austria-Hungary and Italy, and in places wire ropes and ledges hewn into the rock secure the narrow trail. Above the lake towers the mighty Sorapiss group, whose name lives on in the Ladin legend of King Sorapis, who out of guilt turned into a mountain and whose glaciers were interpreted as his eternally flowing tears. Because the lake has drawn more and more hikers in recent years, protection rules now apply to the sensitive shore. So this quiet, high-lying lake unites raw geological beauty with a mythology deeply rooted in the mountain culture.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#221c1a;color:#fff;border-radius:10px;padding:18px 22px;margin-top:28px;\"><strong style=\"font-size:1.08em;\">Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0 12px;color:#d8d2cc;font-size:14px;\">To make your trip run smoothly , our guides and gear tips for this destination:<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:10px;\"><a href=\"\/en\/wanderschuhe\/\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#f25353;color:#fff;padding:9px 16px;border-radius:6px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:14px;\">Hiking boots \u2192<\/a><a href=\"\/en\/schichtenprinzip-bekleidung\/\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#f25353;color:#fff;padding:9px 16px;border-radius:6px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:14px;\">Layering guide for clothing \u2192<\/a><a href=\"\/en\/packliste-tages-bergwanderung\/\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#f25353;color:#fff;padding:9px 16px;border-radius:6px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:14px;\">Day-tour packing list \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Der Lago di Sorapis auf rund 1.900 m leuchtet durch feines Gletschermehl in einem unwirklichen T\u00fcrkis und ist nur zu Fu\u00df erreichbar. Die beliebte Wanderung vom Passo Tre Croci f\u00fchrt \u00fcber teils ausgesetzte, drahtseilgesicherte Passagen zum See am Fu\u00df der Sorapiss-W\u00e4nde. Baden ist zum Schutz nicht erlaubt. Highlights Unwirklich t\u00fcrkisfarbener Gletschersee Wanderung ab Passo Tre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1133,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","citadela-item-category":[36,30],"citadela-item-location":[70],"class_list":["post-1104","citadela-item","type-citadela-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","citadela-item-category-seen-baden","citadela-item-category-wandern-bergtouren","citadela-item-location-venetien-dolomiten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/citadela-item"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1528,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item\/1104\/revisions\/1528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"citadela-item-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item-category?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"citadela-item-location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item-location?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}