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Ancient legends, like the one on the so-called 'Om Selvarec',
harbinger of fertility to all the women living in the valleys which would have touched him.
A land full of richness, not only in the amount of its imaginary elements,
the Dolomites show proudly their own traditions,
like the artistic wrought-iron handicraft,
as ancient as local iron mines,
dated back to 1000 AD, and the wood sculpture handicraft,
considering the abundance of the raw material,
widespread all over the area in the small villages and hamlets.
The old mills, like this one in Arabba, perfectly preserved,
are the testimonies of an old agriculutral past.
The glasses industry has become here a world-leading buisness;
exquisite pieces of this successful history are hosted in Agordo at the Museo dell'Occhiale (Glasses Museum).
In Falcade, the Augusto Murer museum hosts significant creative works by the famous sculptor,
one of the most important exponent of the italian artistic movement of the 20th Century.
In Selva di Cadore, the Public Museum exposes the remains of the so-called 'om de Mondeval',
a hunter-gatherer of the Mesolithic era.
On Mount Pelmetto, in Val di Zoldo,
almost 200 dinosaurs paw prints are impressed on a rock as an eternal reminder of an ancient and glorious past.
On Cima Serauta, halfway station of the cable car to the top of Mount Marmolada,
the highest war museum in europe gathers evidences of the Great War
in Marmolada and the alpine area.
Even now, trenches and tunnels of the legendary "Ice City"
built in that period for military necessities, are still visible on Marmolada. "
The brand-new "Clouds Museum", born from an idea
of the mountain climber Reinhold Messner on Monte Rite, in the vicinity of Forno di Zoldo,
is a modern celebration of the Dolomites and of their history.
Colourful and lively, even folklore shows itself with ancient fascination;
on winter with the carefree cheerfulness of the 'matazin',
on summer with the picturesque performances of the local folk dancers and bands.