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Dolomites holidays

April 2024

  • A clear, turqouise-green swimming lake with the mountains in the background and a blue sky.

    A gentler side of the Dolomites: a summer break in Italy’s Adamello-Brenta natural park

    Its peaks are a big draw for adrenaline junkies, but this natural park’s newer attractions offer more inclusive family activities

September 2023

  • Alpine flowers near Tofane massif, Dolomites.

    Country diary
    Country diary 1973: Alpine landscape of the Dolomites rich in wildlife

    13 September 1973: Flocks of alpine choughs wheeled in the air currents near the cliffs uttering their musical call notes

July 2020

  • the Dolomites near the village of Corvara in the Alta Badia valley.

    Italy this summer: three under-the-radar holiday regions

    With more Italians holidaying at home this year and everyone keen to avoid tourist hotspots, we select beautiful areas for a peaceful break

September 2019

  • Andrew Gilchrist via ferrata

    Truly, madly, steeply: a via ferrata tour of the Dolomites

    Northern Italy’s iron paths give hikers the chance to feel like mountaineers but without rope, anchors or knots. Our writer straps in for the high-altitude thrill of his life

June 2019

  • Lake Caldaro,South Tyrol,Italy.

    High and healthy: an eco-minded break in Italy’s South Tirol

    The Dolomites take centre stage in a region where Italy meets Austria but there is a sustainable approach to food, wine and accommodation that’s eye-catching, too

February 2019

  • Paganella/Trentino skiing, Italy

    Spaghetti junction: fine food and floodlit pistes – Trento, Italy

    An Alpine plateau at the foot of the Dolomites offers local specialities, quiet night-time skiing and decent après

December 2017

  • Skiers in the Dolomites.

    At last, it’s the real thing as Italy’s skiers delight in white after years of fake snow

  • Jurgen Vogel

    Iceman the movie: stone age survivor Ötzi is brought back to life

August 2017

  • The Maratona dles Dolomites is all climbs or descent. Peter Kimpton rides second from left.

    Bike blog
    Glasto to Passo Di Giau: did festival fitness help me cycle Maratona dles Dolomites?

  • A view of a road in the Dolomites.

    Bike blog
    Italian Dolomites bank on 'bike only' days to boost cyclotourism

January 2017

  • A landscape image of the Dolomites on a sunny day. Path to safety … the Dolomites, haven for refugees in the second world war.

    Haven and history: a refuge in the Italian Dolomites

    Bleggio provided shelter for displaced people during the second world war, including Eliot Haworth’s family. He travels there to explore their place of protection

October 2016

  • Rifugio Stella d’Italia

    Great little ski resorts
    Great little ski resorts: Folgaria, Italy

    The combined ski resort of Folgaria, Lavarone and Fiorentini offers good beginner and intermediate skiing in a relaxed small-town atmosphere

April 2016

  • Messner Mountain Museum, Kronplatz, Italy.

    Why I love …
    'Each mountain in the Dolomites is like a piece of art': Reinhold Messner on Tyrol highs

    The world-famous climber on how his mountain home shaped his life – and can still surprise him with its ever-changing views

March 2016

  • Fat biking on the slopes

    My big fat Italian bike tour

    This season’s snowsports fad, an import from the US, is fat biking down the slopes. Sam Hadddad tried the alternative to skiing and snowboarding in the Dolomites. Plus five more places to try it

December 2015

  • Harvesting grapes for prosecco in the Treviso district.

    Italy's Fizz whizzes: prosecco tasting in Veneto

    Prosecco is now the UK’s favourite fizz, though it’s never been Mina Holland’s favourite tipple. But on a trip to Italy’s Veneto region, she’s converted after tasting an unusually cloudy version

January 2015

  • World view
    World view: the festival in the Italian Dolomites where it’s cool to just hang

    Festivalgoers talk about the emotional comedown after tent and wellies are packed away for another year, but at the Highline festival in the Italian Dolomites, it's a more physical thing. The festival celebrates the extreme sport of slacklining (not to be confused with tightrope-walking) and attendees (slackers) spend their time living – and sleeping – on ropes slung hundreds of metres up in the air

September 2014

  • Haute Route Dolomites day 2 Peter Kimpton

    Bike blog
    Gears, tears and breathtaking ascents: how I cycled the Dolomites and Alps

    With barely any training Peter Kimpton tried to tackle the Haute Route, the highest and toughest cyclosportive in the world. How did it go?

August 2014

  • Slavc and Juliet have bred for the second year in succession

    Animal magic
    Star-crossed wolves produce litter of seven

    Incredible footage just broadcast in the Italian media reveals that the celebrity wolves Slavc and Juliet have just had a litter of seven cubs.

April 2013

  • Lunigiana

    Experts' and readers' tips
    Italian mountain activities: readers' travel tips

    From hiking in the splendour of the Italian Alps and Dolomites, to trekking along the Apennines, and enjoying some fine food along the way, readers reveal their favourite activities in Italy's mountain areas

August 2012

  • Dolomite glaciers melting

    Italians pack Speedos as Dolomites lake hit by soaring temperatures

    Glacial lake is usually icy cold even in summer, and efforts to halt Alpine glaciers melting considered to too little and too late
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