The image is from the Via Ferrata protected climbing path on the Paternkofel [Monte Paterno] looking towards the Rifugio Locatelli Drei Zinnen mountain hut and the pinnacle of the Toblinger Knoten Spitze near the famous Three Towers, known in German as Drei Zinnen but more poetically named in Italian as the Tre Cime di Laverado located in the Sexten-Sesto eastern region of the Italian Dolomites. During the First World War, the Austrian Army installed a cannon field gun on top of the little peak in order the shell the Italians just over a kilometre away.


The image is from the Via Ferrata protected climbing path on the Paternkofel [Monte Paterno] looking towards the Rifugio Locatelli Drei Zinnen mountain hut and the pinnacle of the Toblinger Knoten Spitze near the famous Three Towers, known in German as Drei Zinnen but more poetically named in Italian as the Tre Cime di Laverado located in the Sexten-Sesto eastern region of the Italian Dolomites. During the First World War, the Austrian Army installed a cannon field gun on top of the little peak in order the shell the Italians just over a kilometre away.


Size: 6000px × 4775px
Location: Dolomites, South Tirol, Northern Italy
Photo credit: © Allan Hartley / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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