The Dolomites are marked by thousands and thousands of kilometers of paths, mule tracks and equipped routes of various difficulties and length. Many of them, in addition to the extraordinary charm of the places they cross, have an added value: a name and a story.
There are paths dedicated to pioneers or large mountaineers, and others dedicated to prominent figures in areas foreign to the mountain, but that the mountain have loved. Some dedication concerns personalities of culture who have mountain roots or even artists who have left trace of their passage. There are numerous paths "of the Alpine troops" or "of the Kaiserjäger", made by Italian and Austrian soldiers in very hard environmental conditions on the line of the front in imminence and during the Great War. The paths that recall the activities of the mountain of the past are also widespread: from miners to the mountaineers who collected and marketing snow and ice. They are also fascinating those that bring back to distant eras and there are also the paths and places that refer to the Dolomite fairy tales saved by oblivion.
In this book 45 itineraries are described, considered by the most interesting authors from a hiking point of view and the most significant for the value of the "dedication" or the history.
Mostly these are paths accessible to everyone but there is no shortage of equipped paths and ferred streets and a couple of routes that require experience of mountaineering hiking.

Info on authors
Paolo Bonetti, was born in Bologna from Father Ferrarese and mother of the Dolomitica Valle di Zoldo. Since the 60s he has dedicated himself to climbing on rock in the Dolomites as well as on the Apennines of the Apennines and on the Calcari delle Apuane, remaining in activity until the 80s.
At the end of the 70s he began to operate in the mountain publicity by translating Big Wall Climbing by Doug Scott (the great walls, the Castello Editore) then collaborated with numerous publishers and newspapers: Tamari, Zanichelli, Vivalda, Panorama, Ciere, stages, side South. Alpine Club of London, Rother, Alp, monthly magazine of the CAI, Alps Venete, Alpin, Bergsteiger.
Since the 80s, intensifies the activity in publicity by dedicating himself to the mountaineering of the pioneers and to the "out -of -the -path" research excursionism. Among his latest publications, as co -author, the Valsugana hiking guide and Canale del Brenta (southern slope 2010).

Paolo Lazzarin, journalist and photographer, lives and works in Milan as a freelancer.
He collaborated with the main Italian newspapers and some foreigners and contributed to the drafting of voices for encyclopedias.
He is the author or co-author of over 40 volumes published by Rizzoli, Fabbri, Zanichelli, Tamari, Cierrea, Panorama, Scripta, Stars, Vivalda, some of which also translated into Spain, France, Germany, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and the United States.
In the Dolomites he published about fifteen volumes, photographic and hiking, tourist and food and wine guides.