The Dolomites Walking Holidays

Pale limestone towers rise straight out of green pasture here, which makes the walking unusually varied: the Tre Cime circuit, the rolling meadows of the Alpe di Siusi, and old wartime paths cut into the rock face. Stay in one valley and use lifts and buses to reach a different trail each day. Huts serve canederli dumplings and apple strudel, and at dusk the enrosadira turns the cliffs pink.

• Tre Cime di Lavaredo circuit beneath three limestone spires
• Alpe di Siusi, the largest high-altitude meadow in the Alps
• Turquoise Lago di Braies and Lago di Carezza
• Via ferrata routes on First World War supply lines
• Enrosadira: the pink alpenglow on the cliffs at sunset
• Canederli, barley soup and strudel in mountain rifugi