The appearance of these unusual mountains of northeast Italy is constantly changing, offering the visitor new views at every turn. For this reason the Dolomites have always inspired myths and legends.
The unusual shapes of the Dolomites and their ever-changing colors have fired the imagination of those who live here for thousands of years. Is it possible to travel through these mountains without seeing faces in the rocks, caves and caverns, inhabited perhaps by Salvans (cave dwellers) or by Ganes (woodland fairies)? The centuries have given rise to all kinds of legends, which tell of dwarf kings (King Laurino), warriors and princesses, of alliances between humans and marmots, of the decline and return of mysterious mountain kingdoms. Karl Felix Wolff (1879-1966) collected and wrote down these legends in 1913, thus saving them from oblivion.
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