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"Great is the power of memory that dwells in places." (from Cicero)

Kakelorum' marbles game

Carefully made games with marbles from Val di Fassa also belonged to the items exported from Val Gardena. The game 'Kakelorum' worked like roulette, with the marble being thrown into the turban or crown of the figurine hollowed out like a helter-skelter. The marble then rolls down the spiral to land in the numbered dents in the plate at its base. 

Sella group in its alpenglow

This tempera painting of the Sella massif (in Ladin Sas dla Luesa, Mëisules) bathed by the evening light comes from Peter Demetz da Fëur (1913-1977), who taught in the art schools in Wolkenstein and St. Ulrich after the Second World War. The motif of the Dolomites unspoilt by human hand was often employed by this keen hiker.  

Neomegalodon

This large bivalve mollusc ruled the mud flats of the largest Triassic carbonate platform, for good reason called Dolomia Principale (Main Dolomite), stretched throughout the Dolomites and over a good part of the western Tethys. The dolomitization process almost always dissolved its thick shell, leaving only the sediment that filled the shell itself.