Stretching out on a lounge chair, I relaxed as if I were at the beach -- but I was high in Italy's Alps, the Dolomites. Europe's largest high alpine meadow stretched like a sea before me, speckled ...

Sept. 12, 2004 -- — Northern Italy’s dramatic Dolomites mountain range offers you some of the top mountain thrills in Europe: scenic alpine lifts and hikes, the charming towns of Castelrotto ...

by Rick Steves, October 1, 2021 | Italy's Dolomites offer fields for walking, mountains for hiking, as well as the option for the "sweetness of doing nothing." Read more here.

They’ve been experimenting with using lifts to access the Italian Alps on their doorsteps since before WWII. In fact, Italy’s first official chairlift opened here in 1946.

The Dolomites house a truly beautiful corner of the Italian Alps, and yet, it is still a surprisingly underrated winter destination for those outside of Europe.

The Italian Dolomites are known for skiing. Now they can be your nature and wellness getaway. ... it’s the highest peak in the Italian Alps, known as the ‘Queen of the Dolomites’.

A British woman slipped and fell 100 feet to her death while hiking with her husband in the Dolomites, in northern Italy. ... of about 11,000 feet and the highest peak in the Italian Dolomite Alps.

The Swiss get all the credit for the Alps, which is a shame, because the Italian Alps are ridiculously pretty. They’re particularly spectacular in the Dolomites, a range of 18 peaks in the ...

The Dolomites—meaning pale mountains—span a vast area of 6,000 square miles, over 2000 mountains and hug Austria to the north (the South Tyrol was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until ...