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Country: Italy
Username: micio
Sent on: 21 May, 2009
Received on: 30 May, 2009
Description: Dolomites


The Dolomites (Italian: Dolomiti; German: Dolomiten; Friulian: Dolomitis) are a section of the Alps.
The Dolomites are very beautiful and the Dolomites have different looks in different seasons.



The Dolomites inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List (Natural sites) in 2009.

The Dolomites (Italy) comprise a mountain range in the northern Italian Alps, numbering 18 peaks which rise to above 3,000 metres and cover 141,903 ha. It features some of the most beautiful mountain landscapes anywhere, with vertical walls, sheer cliffs and a high density of narrow, deep and long valleys. A serial property of nine areas that present a diversity of spectacular landscapes of international significance for geomorphology marked by steeples, pinnacles and rock walls, the site also contains glacial landforms and karst systems. It is characterized by dynamic processes with frequent landslides, floods and avalanches. The property also features one of the best examples of the preservation of Mesozoic carbonate platform systems, with fossil records.

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1237/