“The most beautiful work of architecture in the world” is how the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier described the Dolomites. Stretching across the largely German-speaking, Austrian-influenced region of South Tyrol in north-east Italy, the towering, snow-capped “Pale Alps” that make up the mountain range—a UNESCO World Heritage site—have a fantastical, otherworldly beauty, with 18 “three-thousanders” (mountains exceeding 3,000 meters above sea level).
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