FREE Skive: Italy’s Dolomite Mountains come alive during the summer

You do not need to be the kingdom or owner of a pimped palanquin to get a chair lift. In Doromites, your chariot waits.

This scenic mountain range near the Boot border with Austria is the service with nearly 500 public transport options that are ashamed of luxury cars. They go from two -person cable cars “in the archive style” to the 12 luxury gondolates connecting a widespread network of cities. Better still, it’s all accessible to your ticket with an elevator.

And while most of the Dampon for Dominitis in the winter to benefit from the 12 SKIES SKIP SKIES SUPERSKI – some of which will wait for the Winter Olympics of 2026 – nearly 150 open elevators in the summer months of June, July and August. Provided you are not afraid of heights, they allow for easy transport from city to city. Only the high region of Badia is home to six alpine villages in a stretch of only 10 miles.

The locals are certainly not acrophobes. They have experimented with the use of elevators to enter the Italian Alps on their threshold since World War II. In fact, the first official leader of Italy opened here in 1946. A single wooden and iron site presented reburied parts stolen from the tanks that survived the war.

Today’s elevators are more modern. The roofs of their stations are a piece of quilted solar panels that provide enough green energy to ferry up to 3,500 passengers per hour at speeds of up to 16 meters per second.

While rental cars exist in dolomites, they should be called excess cars. Why confuse by trying to find parking in cities with more lifting stations than stops? Plus, if you do not have a helicopter at your disposal, many accommodations are only accessible to your cable.

Take Pralongià Hut Alpine Mountain Inn Alpine: ‘It is caught at 7.076 meters above and there is really a way to get there (and you have it). Mimets start at $ 177 per person, at night and include half the board.

You will also need to get high to go down to these parts. You can expect a lot of Ladin’s dishes, as while the Dolomites are technically in Italy, many locals speak Ladin. Their diet is heavy on barley soup, dumplings and wild play. In Alpine Hut Pralongià, it is not uncommon for guues to dinner with roe deer and wild boar harvested by hut owners who describes themselves as thirsty hunters.

Visitors to Aggritism Lüch Da Priestn, a traditional four -storey room with rooms from $ 43 per night, enjoy organic milk, cheese and eggs from cows in place and chickens. Once the snow melts, the cattle graze in the same slopes skiers during the winter. Many farmers, who also run hotels, live under elevators and operate them among foods.

For even more elevated experience, consider the Cristallo Hotel where the 602 square meter Cristallo Suit contains a private bathroom complete with an infrared sauna. Mime in June starts about $ 380 per person for a night.

You will also be perfect in Las Vegas Lodge (rate of $ 155 per person, for a night) where the morning of the Sunny slap – is served at 6,726 meters above sea level – is a destination in itself. In winter, his shells arrive in your snow. In the summer, they rely on the Piz Sorega Piz Gondola.

Of course, if you have good quads and calves (and not too much baggage), you can always grow. The Dolomites were assigned a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992 due to their “plot beauty” derived from a variety of spectacular vertical forms such as points, points and towers “.

Today, you will find more than 6,200 miles of well -marked trails leading to a series of attractions. Mother Nature’s courtesy You have Lake di sorapiss, a high alpine lake color of listerine due to the pristine glacier that feeds it. In the man -made department, you will find cultured mountain stains such as Mountain Messner Museum, designed by the late architect, excellent Zaha Hadid. Although part of it is underground, it is located on a plate scrap in cloud accessible a four-hour or 10-minute cable growth.

Yclingiclism in the summit is also an opportunity. In the summer, village rented shops exchange skiing for impressive wheel fleets. You can also benefit from the unique High Badia bicycle sharing program that represents the e-Mountain bikes found in six high HEAR stations. Stationo Station is equipped with a charger; Some mountain houses also have them. Bikes travel for free in most elevators with a payer.

So how much does your chair career cost? A daily transition you access to all 140-plus elevators open during the summer-is only $ 70. Stay for a week and pay about $ 40 a day. And there is no need to direct your elevator operator. It will make an old -fashioned “Grazie”.