The highest and most impressive cableway of the Dolomites.
From Malga Ciapéla (1,450 m), a first daring stretch leads to the exchange station of Antermoia (2350 m.). The second stretch climbs the wild valley of the same name and reaches Forcella Seraùta at an altitude of 2,950 m (Zona Monumentale) where we find the Great War Museum, the highest in Europe.
The third stretch of the cableway, flying over the glacier reaches Punta Rocca at 3,265 metres, where the highest panoramic terrace of the Dolomites has just been created: breathtaking views over the glacier, on the chasm of the South wall, towards the Bellunesi, Agordine, Zoldane, Cadore and Ampezzano Dolomites, towards the Austrian Alps.
Sempre a Punta Rocca si può visitare la grotta della Madonna consacrata nel 1979 da S.S. Papa Giovanni Paolo II, divenuta luogo di pellegrinaggio.
“On 24.5.1915 the Mannlicher of an Austrian troop opened fire against the Alpine troop of the Belluno Battalion." Thus began the sad story of the Alpine war in Marmolada that brought the soldiers, both Italian and Austrian, to fight the mountain more than one another for 30 months .
Visitors to Forcella Serauta can see trenches and tunnels dug into the rock at an altitude of 3,000 metres, with opening onto the cliffs over frightening walls in silent recollection of those nameless soldiers, following two different flags, life on that peak, which was almost unassailable at the time. |