Places on Dolomites Highlights

This is Sirmione’s Scaligero Castle, on the southern shore of Lake Garda. Keep it distinct from Malcesine’s castle when choosing your day and overnight base.

Gardone Riviera suits a west-shore lakefront visit with time for its gardens or the Vittoriale. Choose one ticketed attraction rather than treating every garden as part of a short promenade walk.

Choose a section of Lake Garda that matches your overnight shore. A short scenic drive and a complete circuit of Italy’s largest lake are very different plans.

Malcesine is a compact east-shore town for a harbour walk, streets and castle views. A Monte Baldo lift outing is a separate mountain plan, not included in the town’s one-hour allowance.

Carezza is a lakeshore stop in Val d’Ega, outside Ortisei. It can fit a transfer through this part of the mountains, with the approach kept separate from the short lake visit.

The Terrace of the Dolomites is reached by the Sass Pordoi cable car from Passo Pordoi. A terrace visit does not include a hike across the high plateau.

Choose Lagazuoi for a cable-car mountain visit and terrace views, or plan a proper walk separately. The summit visit and the wartime tunnel routes are different outings.

Passo Giau works as a mountain-pass viewpoint or the start of a separate walk. Decide which visit you want before assigning it an hour between other stops.

Give Tre Cime a proper mountain day. Choose your walk and access to the start together, then leave room for the return or your move to the next overnight base.

Plan the journey into the Braies valley before the lakeshore visit. Access rules change with the season; a calm lake photograph does not tell you whether you need a reservation or how much time to leave for the approach.

Choose Val di Funes for its villages, church viewpoints and walking routes. Allow for the journey into this separate valley from Ortisei.

San Giovanni at Ranui is a specific church stop in Val di Funes. Keep to public paths and the venue’s access rules, with the surrounding meadows treated as private land.

A full Sassolungo circuit and an out-and-back toward Rifugio Sandro Pertini are different walking days. Select the exact trail before using Fyno’s 3–8-hour range.

Choose between a lift-assisted ridge visit and a longer mountain walk. Allow for the journey from Ortisei and the last return lift, rather than treating Seceda as a quick stop between two full hikes.

Tandem paragliding is a weather-dependent booked activity. The operator chooses the suitable take-off and flight plan; a view of Seceda is not a guaranteed flight itinerary.

Ortisei makes a useful town base for lift days and a slower afternoon. Choose Seceda or Alpe di Siusi as a mountain outing, with the town as its own experience.

Choose a defined meadow walk or a cycling outing on Alpe di Siusi. This is a large plateau, so its 2–8-hour curated range represents different experiences, not one fixed walk.

Make Brenta a mountain day, choosing a signed walking route from the Grostè lift area rather than treating the entire massif as one hike.