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The mountain massif belongs to the western Dolomites and stretches from the Sella Group to the rocky ridges of the Catinaccio. The highest summit, the Sassolungo, boasts an altitude of 3,181 metres and covers almost half of the entire mountain group.

Further summits are the so-called Punta Grohmann, Torre Innerkofler, Dente, Sassopiatto and Cinque Dita.

The Sassolungo and Sassopiatto mountains boast several climbing routes and paths and are thus especially popular with climbers. A cable car connects Passo Sella with the ridges of the Sassolungo Mountain at 2,681 metres. Here you will find the ideal starting point to walk around the Sassolungo Mountain. Enjoy the breath-taking view of the Sella Mountain Group, Marmolada Mountain and Alpe di Siusi!

Churches & Monasteries of Lough Erne

Churches and monasteries were being built in County Fermanagh from at least the 6th century. They were especially densely concentrated on the islands and shores of Lough (Lake) Erne, which divides the county at a diagonal. The islands of the lake may appear remote today, but in Early Christian times Lough Erne was a great highway, providing a route from the ocean near Ballyshannon deep inland into Ireland.

The island monasteries served as port of call on this waterway. In the medieval period, parish churches occupied many of the island and shore sites, and some continued the tradition of hospitality to travelers and pilgrims offered by the early monasteries. The most important of the island monasteries, and one of the most important monastery in Ulster for over a thousand years, was Devenish Island.

The Mille Miglia (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmille ˈmiʎʎa], Thousand Miles) was an open-road endurance race which took place in Italy twenty-four times from 1927 to 1957 (thirteen before the war, eleven from 1947).
The race was banned after two fatal crashes.

The first crash was a crash of a 4.2-litre Ferrari in 1957 that took the lives of the Spanish driver Alfonso de Portago, his co-driver/navigator Edmund Nelson, and nine spectators, at the village of Guidizzolo.[1] The car supposedly landed on top of Portago and Nelson cutting them in half. Five of the spectators killed were children, all of whom were standing along the race course. Portago desperately wanted to win this race and waited too long to make a tire change. The crash was caused by a worn tire. The manufacturer was blamed and sued for this, as was the Ferrari team.
A second car crash in Brescia took the life of Joseph Göttgens. He was driving a Triumph TR3.
From 1958 to 1961, the event resumed as a rallying-like round trip at legal speeds with a few special stages driven at full speed, but this was discontinued also.

Since 1977, the name was revived as the Mille Miglia Storica, a parade for pre-1957 cars that takes several days, which also spawned the 2007 documentary film Mille Miglia - The Spirit of a Legend.

On the banks of Ayamonte is the River Guadiana which is Europe's second longest river. From its mouth at Ayamonte, the river is now only navigable for about 40 miles as far as Mertola.

Some of the towns along the river banks can be traced back as far as the Bronze Age and up until the middle of the last century, the river was an important commercial route bringing traffic from the sea to the interior of the Peninsular.