San Vito di Cadore

San Vito di Cadore sits at 1,011 meters in the upper Boite valley between Antelao, the 3,264-meter king of the Dolomites, and the Pelmo across the valley to the west, ten kilometers south of Cortina d'Ampezzo. The road from Belluno to Cortina runs through the centro. The commune appears in records from 1208, when the parish church of Saints Vito, Modesto and Crescenzia was first documented.

The Chiesa della Madonna della Difesa, at the village's south end, was built in the late fifteenth century and remodeled into the sixteenth, frescoed throughout and holding an altarpiece by Francesco Vecellio, Tiziano's younger brother, whose family came from the next valley. Tourism arrived in the mid-nineteenth century and grew steadily after the 1950s. Lago di Mosigo, an artificial lake created in 1929 to drain a marsh, is the summer center of the village. The Lunga Via delle Dolomiti cycle path crosses the commune on the old Calalzo-Cortina railway bed, the basis of the Greenways recognition.