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The World War I Open-air Museum at Plöckenpass is particularly interesting. Here, the Dolomitenfreunde have restored an area that, because of the pass, was particularly heavily defended. Both the Austrian and Italian front lines, which here were only 30 metres apart, can be visited. It is not a museum in the conventional sense, there are no entry and exit points and the curation is minimal, but after days of walking through war remains it’s easy for your imagination to fill in the gaps.

Where it can, the route follows the border and the front line. The bigger mountains, however, are typically circumvented either to the north or south. Nearly all these mountains can be easily climbed and the crowning fortifications visited.

Field kitchen on Kleiner Pal (Stage 5B); Insignia carved into rocks; All-too-real dugout on Große Kinigat (Stage 2)

SUGGESTED READING

 The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915–1919 by Mark Thompson

 The War that Ended Peace by Margaret MacMillan

The landscape and views