Declared a Unesco World Heritage Site in 2009, the Dolomites in the northern Italian Alps offer walkers, who enjoy a moderate degree of challenge, some of the world's finest and most distinctive mountain landscapes.

From soaring rock towers to grassy alpine meadows the Italian Dolomites offers some of the most dramatic, exciting and challenging hiking areas in the Alps.

Strikingly different from the French and Swiss Alps, the limestone Dolomites of northern Italy rise dramatically from alpine valleys to form startling spire-like peaks and towering canyonesque rock faces.

Explore the trails and landscapes amidst the peaks whose jagged silhouettes inspired one writer to call the mountains, "flames frozen in stone." Among the most visually stunning mountains anywhere, the Dolomites offer a superb network of trails.