The Dolomites

The Dolomites are a range of pale limestone towers across Italy's northeast - Belluno, Trentino and South Tyrol - and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The rock was a coral reef once, and at dawn and dusk the peaks still flush pink, a glow the Ladin locals call enrosadira. It is a corner of Italy that answers to two languages, where a good day means a high trail, a rifugio lunch, a turquoise lake, and those pale walls turning rose as the light goes.