The Falzarego Pass ( it, Passo di Falzarego, lld, Jou de Fauzare) (el. 2,105 m) is a high
mountain pass in the province of
Belluno in
Italy
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.
It mainly connects the territory of
Agordo
Agordo ( Local Ladin: ''Agort'', Ladin: ''Ègort'', Austrian German: ''Augarten'') is a town and ''comune'' (municipality) sited in the Province of Belluno, in the Veneto region in Italy. It is located about north of Venice and about northwest o ...
and
Cortina d'Ampezzo. From the pass, starts also SP24 (Strada provinciale del Passo di Valparola) directed northbound to
Val Badia
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passing below
Sas de Stria and through
Valparola Pass
The Valparola Pass ( it, Passo di Valparola) (el. 2,168 m, in Ladin : "Ju de Valparola") is a high mountain pass in the Dolomites in the province of Belluno in Italy.
The pass lies a little west of Falzarego Pass. The hut "Rifugio Passo ...
.
A gondola rises to the
Lagazuoi (2,762 m), which was the object of heavy combat and
mine warfare in
World War I
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. The tunnel that the Italians built under the
Austro-Hungarian lines is open to the public.
Etymology
The name probably derives from
Ladin
Ladin may refer to:
* Ladin language, a language in northern Italy, often classified as a Rhaeto-Romance language
*Ladin people, the inhabitants of the Dolomite Alps region of northern Italy
See also
*Laden (disambiguation)
* Ladino (disambigua ...
''fóuze'', scythe.
A popular
folk etymology claims that it supposedly comes instead from ''Faúza Règo'', which would mean ''false king'' in
Ladin
Ladin may refer to:
* Ladin language, a language in northern Italy, often classified as a Rhaeto-Romance language
*Ladin people, the inhabitants of the Dolomite Alps region of northern Italy
See also
*Laden (disambiguation)
* Ladino (disambigua ...
, but is not attested in this form in the language. It would refer to the king of the Fanes, who was supposedly turned to stone for betraying his people.
Sports
The pass is occasionally in the program of the
Giro d'Italia race.
The Falzarego Pass is one of the Dolomites mountain passes riders cross in the annual
Maratona dles Dolomites
The Maratona dles Dolomites (Ladin for "Dolomites Marathon"; it, Maratona delle Dolomiti), is an annual single-day road bicycle race covering seven mountain passes in the Dolomites. Open to amateur cyclists, the Maratona—with 9,000 riders ...
single-day
bicycle race
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. As riders proceed directly from the Falzarego Pass to the higher
Valparola Pass
The Valparola Pass ( it, Passo di Valparola) (el. 2,168 m, in Ladin : "Ju de Valparola") is a high mountain pass in the Dolomites in the province of Belluno in Italy.
The pass lies a little west of Falzarego Pass. The hut "Rifugio Passo ...
the Falzarego is not counted as one of the canonical seven Maratona passes.
See also
*
Alta Via 1
Alta Via 1 is a 150-kilometre-long high-level public footpath which runs through the eastern Dolomites in Italy. It is also known as the Dolomite High Route 1. It passes through some of the finest scenery in the Dolomites. The path runs south from ...
*
Dolomites
The Dolomites ( it, Dolomiti ; Ladin: ''Dolomites''; german: Dolomiten ; vec, Dołomiti : fur, Dolomitis), also known as the Dolomite Mountains, Dolomite Alps or Dolomitic Alps, are a mountain range located in northeastern Italy. They form pa ...
*
Italian front (World War I)
*
List of highest paved roads in Europe
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*
List of mountain passes
This is a list of mountain passes.
Africa
Egypt
* Halfaya Pass (near Libya)
Lesotho
* Moteng Pass
* Mahlasela pass
* Sani Pass
Morocco
* Tizi n'Tichka
South Africa
* Eastern Cape Passes
* Western Cape Passes
* Northern Cape Passes
* ...
*
White War
The White War ( it, Guerra Bianca, german: Gebirgskrieg, hu, Fehér Háború) is the name given to the fighting in the high-altitude Alpine sector of the Italian front during the First World War, principally in the Dolomites, the Ortles-Cev ...
References
Falzarego
Geography of Cortina d'Ampezzo
Giro d'Italia
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