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By bus

Long-distance coaches from northern Italian cities provide convenient links with the Dolomites throughout the summer season:

 ATVO (Venice to Cortina) Tel 0421 594580 www.atvo.it

 Autostradale (Milan to Cortina, Val di Fassa and Madonna di Campiglio) Tel 02 33910794 www.autostradale.it

 Brusutti (Venice to Caprile, San Martino di Castrozza and Canazei) Tel 041 5416663 www.brusutti.com

 Cortina Express (Bologna, Mestre and Venice Marco Polo Airport to Cortina, Val Badia and Val Pusteria) Tel 0436 867350 www.cortinaexpress.it

 STAT-Turismo (Genoa–Trentino) Tel 0142 781660 www.statturismo.com

Local transport

The extensive network of trains and buses across the Dolomites is refreshingly inexpensive, easy to use and unfailingly reliable. All but two of the 50 walks in this guidebook start and finish at a point accessible by local public transport and the whole book was researched in this way. What’s more, the bus drivers know the mountain roads and conditions like the back of their hand, leaving passengers free to sit back and enjoy the views. Visitors to the Dolomites are invited to leave their car at home, thereby not contributing to air pollution and traffic congestion in these magical mountains. Many holiday resorts offer free or cut-price bus passes for their guests to encourage this habit. Strategically placed cable-cars and chair lifts are also used on the walks described.