Ampezzo, my favorite place in Italy 🏔️

Between these majestic mountains lives a proud, strong and heartwarming culture of local mountain people that are silently being pushed out of their homeland, the extravagant luxury tourism that brings VIPs twice a year for the summer and winter seasons is constantly driving the region’s cost of life to unrealistic prices, to a point where none of the locals can afford to keep up, families break apart fighting for millionaire inheritances of old houses built by the hands of their own grandparents, eventually abandoning their roots for a bag of money and broken ties, while the state replaces any infrastructure that serves the community with constructions to attract even more tourism. I love you Cortina d’Ampezzo, and the slow death of your essence deeply breaks my heart ❤️‍🩹