Visit Cortina d'Ampezzo

Pale limestone towers that turn rose-pink at sunset — Italy’s most spectacular mountains

Circle the Sella massif on skis in a day — 40 km of pistes linking four Ladin valleys

Loop beneath the three iconic rock towers — the most famous silhouette in the Dolomites

The Queen of the Dolomites and the last glacier in the range, with a wartime tunnel museum inside it.

A city built on water with no cars — gondolas, Byzantine mosaics, and getting happily lost in the back canals

Glide the back canals by gondola — touristy, yes, but silent, ancient and unrepeatable anywhere else

From Venice and Verona to Prosecco hills and Dolomite peaks — Veneto spans lagoon to mountain

Masked balls and Carnevale in the floating city — 18th-century costumes drifting through misty winter squares