Cima Cauriol: a symbol of the First World War

One of the paths that most of all leads to know the remains of the Great War. You can find several remains of trenches and barracks from the First World War and you can see the superb panorama of the Fassa Dolomites, the Vanoi Valley and the Cima d’Asta peak.

It was a very harsh winter in 1915, which saw the Italian and Austrian troops confront each other in the conquest of this symbolic peak. The bitter battles ended only in August 1916, leaving on its slopes galleries, wooden barracks, walkways, stone stairs, gunner posts, barbed wire and guard posts. It is on this historical heritage that the excursion along the "Via Austriaca" develops, a stony mule track sometimes ruined by the falling rocks over the years. The itinerary is quite demanding and long, at the beginning on roads that then become steep paths and passages on porphyritic rocks where you have to pay attention. The summit cross rises between the huge boulders and hollows created by the explosion of the bombs.

There is a source where to refuel water, immediately after Pian delle Maddalene, at an altitude of 1800 meters.