num_pages: 435
description: A popular guidebook to short walks in the Dolomites of north east Italy. The guide describes 50 walks graded from easy to strenuous and varying in length from 5 km strolls to 20km full-day expeditions. The Dolomites are suitable for summer walking and the mountains are easily accessible just across the border from Austria and easily reached from Verona Treviso Venice and Innsbruck airports.The Dolomites are blessed with vast forests high-altitude rocky landscapes and seas of beautiful wildflowers and the range is now a designated Unesco World Heritage Site encompassing a national park - Parco Nazionale Dolomiti Bellunesi - and several other protected areas. Highlights include the Tre Cime di Lavaredo the Civetta the Piz Bo circuit on the Sella massif and the Sentiero delle Odle. This guide offers something for every walking ability and preference and includes all the background and planning information you need to plan a trip including an Italian-German-English glossary and a list of accommodation providers and websites and details of all rifugios on or near the routes.
language: English
title: Shorter Walks in the Dolomites: 50 varied day walks in the mountains
publisher: Cicerone Press