Discover Marmolada

The massif stands on the boundary between Veneto and Trentino, above Rocca Pietore in the province of Belluno, at the western edge of the Dolomite groups that surround Cortina.

Its structure is a single tilted slab. The south face drops in one sweep to the Ombretta valley; the north side falls more gently and holds the glacier and the ski slopes.

Below to the north lies the Fedaia pass and its reservoir; to the south, the Val Pettorina running down to Rocca Pietore and Malga Ciapela.

Because it stands higher and more isolated than the surrounding groups, the summit view takes in most of the Dolomites at once -- and on clear days a long stretch of the main alpine chain beyond them.