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    half of them located in the Dolomites. As well as historic via ferratas based on World War I fortifications, the Dolomites are particularly renowned for...
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    is at 3264 m the highest mountain in the Ampezzo Dolomites and the second highest in the Dolomites. When the weather is good, Monte Antelao is clearly...
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    sector of the Italian front during the First World War, principally in the Dolomites, the Ortles-Cevedale Alps and the Adamello-Presanella Alps. More than...
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    Dolomites a mountainous Unesco World Heritage Site. The Marmolada, at 3,343 m (10,968 ft) above sea level, is the highest mountain in the Dolomites....
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    tours, climbing routes up to grade X/X+, ice climbing and mixed routes up to grade M13 and numerous alpine routes up until grade 10. In the Dolomites...
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    calancas) is a narrow, steep-walled inlet that is developed in limestone, dolomite, or other carbonate strata and found along the Mediterranean coast. A calanque...
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  • Florence. Dolomites: Dolomites Classical High Route (no.1) from Braies Lake to Belluno High Route of the Legends (no.2) from Brixen to Feltre Dolomites High...
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    Cape Argus Cycle Tour in South Africa which celebrated its 30th year in 2007 with 40,000 entrants and Italy's Maratona dles Dolomites. The largest open...
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    subject of rocks, particularly in the Dolomites, with exhibits focusing on the history of the formation of the Dolomites. The summit observation platform offers...
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    Marco Pantani (category Tour de France winners)
    Pantani faced a disadvantage of almost four minutes to Zülle before the Dolomites mountain stages and an individual time trial on the penultimate stage...
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    Gastone Nencini (category Tour de France winners)
    rider and Nencini one of the fastest down hills. They met at a col in the Dolomites during the Giro d'Italia. The weather was bad and a snowstorm had forced...
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    Gröden [ˈɡʁøːdn̩]; Ladin: Gherdëina [ɡʀ̩ˈdɜi̯na] ) is a valley in the Dolomites of South Tyrol, Northern Italy. It is best known as a tourist skiing,...
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    dles Dolomites in 2017. 1976 1st Road race, National Junior Road Championships 1985 1st Stage 2 GP Tell 1986 8th Milano–Vignola 9th Overall Tour Midi-Pyrénées...
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    Charly Gaul (category Tour de France winners)
    victory in the Dolomites stage from Meran to Monte Bondone, near Trento), Gaul was almost half an hour down after six days' racing in the 1956 Tour de France...
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    an important base for the up-and-coming sport of mountaineering in the Dolomites. In 1872, he employed the brothers Hans and Michael Innerkofler as mountain...
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  • the Triumph Dolomite. Three of these cars were made in 1934, one of which was used in competition and destroyed in an accident. The Dolomites manufactured...
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    Prèârpes francêses; Occitan: Preaups francesas L'Organisation structurale des Alpes françaises (French) Raoul Blanchard (1938–1956), Les Alpes Occidentales...
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    Fausto Coppi (category Tour de France winners)
    2nd Mountains classification 4th Critérium des As 4th Trofeo Baracchi (with Wim Van Est) 10th Overall Tour de France 1st Stage 20 3rd Mountains classification...
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  • Alps, in Germany in the Karwendel and in Italy in the Rosengarten of the Dolomites, as well as the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. Near Mittenwald, the Spanish...
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    routes in the Dolomites, making more than 70 first ascents and becoming the leading climber during the heyday of climbing in the Dolomites. In 1910 he made...
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    European bicycle races such as the Giro d'Italia, the Tour de Suisse, the Tour of Austria, the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España. Due to snow conditions...
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    2015 European Championship, Ultra skyrunning) 14th, Dolomites SkyRace Vertical km, Italy 4th, Dolomites SkyRace 22 km (14 mi), Italy 1st, Blåmann Vertical...
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    Dolomites Tre Cime di Lavaredo". PlanetMountain. Retrieved 17 December 2022. "Alexander Huber frees Pan Aroma 8c on Cima Ovest di Lavaredo, Dolomites"...
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    museum, with four galleries, is located in Paris, France, within the Jardin des Plantes on the left bank of the River Seine. It was formally founded in 1793...
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    mountains include the Matterhorn (Monte Cervino) in the western Alps, and the Dolomites in the eastern Alps. Many parts of Italy are of volcanic origin. Most...
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    Dolomites". PlanetMountain. 5 February 2016. Retrieved 2 May 2023. "Dariusz Sokołowski discovers his Parallel World, D16 dry tooling in the Dolomites"...
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    carbonyl complexes. The largest sources of inorganic carbon are limestones, dolomites and carbon dioxide, but significant quantities occur in organic deposits...
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    1930, glacier-capped Cima Tosa was the highest mountain of the Brenta Dolomites at 3,173 m, but now is around 3,140 m high and some 10 m lower than its...
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    the Tour de France Automobile in 1923; Bol d'Or 1922, 1923, 1926-8; Paris~Pyrenees 1922, 1923; Paris~Nice 1923, 1927; GP San Sebastian 1926; Dolomites 1934...
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    west. The exposed hard rocks are Ordovician schist and Devonian dolomite. The dolomite forms a vertical ridge upon which the 8th century fortification...
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