Enrosadira – glowing Dolomites
The Val di Fassa at sunset: a breath-taking and memorable sight, with the surrounding
mountain tops shrouded in a rosy veil, with their peaks suddenly transformed into a
magic rose garden, with an evocative and incomparable fascination, which gives the
environment a fairy-tale atmosphere of vivacious and shimmering lights and colours,
with unique and incomparable contrasts of colours.
This is what the Ladins call Enrosadira, which literally means "to become rose-coloured"; at sunset on days with a special atmosphere, this extraordinary phenomenon caused by the special composition of calcium carbonate and magnesium, gives the rocky walls of the Dolomites a rosy colour that gradually turns to purple.
This is the scientific explanation, but it is perhaps more evocative and romantic to believe in the legend of the "Pale Mountains" which tells of the magic kingdom of the dwarfs governed by King Laurino, who had a splendid rose garden on Mount Catinaccio. King Laurino wanted to marry the beautiful princess Similda and sent three of his dwarf to ask for her hand. When she refused King Laurino decided to resort to magic and kidnap her. Seven years later, thanks to the existence of the roses, Similda's brother managed to find King Laurino's kingdom and, after a bitter battle, defeated the king of the dwarfs. After being captured by the foreign warriors, Laurino cursed the flowers that had betrayed him and ordered the roses no longer to flower, either during the day or at might.
However, he forgot to mention sunset. And that is why the Enrosadira still flowers today on the beautiful Val di Fassa mountains at sunset.
This is what the Ladins call Enrosadira, which literally means "to become rose-coloured"; at sunset on days with a special atmosphere, this extraordinary phenomenon caused by the special composition of calcium carbonate and magnesium, gives the rocky walls of the Dolomites a rosy colour that gradually turns to purple.
This is the scientific explanation, but it is perhaps more evocative and romantic to believe in the legend of the "Pale Mountains" which tells of the magic kingdom of the dwarfs governed by King Laurino, who had a splendid rose garden on Mount Catinaccio. King Laurino wanted to marry the beautiful princess Similda and sent three of his dwarf to ask for her hand. When she refused King Laurino decided to resort to magic and kidnap her. Seven years later, thanks to the existence of the roses, Similda's brother managed to find King Laurino's kingdom and, after a bitter battle, defeated the king of the dwarfs. After being captured by the foreign warriors, Laurino cursed the flowers that had betrayed him and ordered the roses no longer to flower, either during the day or at might.
However, he forgot to mention sunset. And that is why the Enrosadira still flowers today on the beautiful Val di Fassa mountains at sunset.
