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Cortina d'Ampezzo

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Cortina d'Ampezzo, Veneto/Italy Ampezzo Cortina could have the meaning of ‘enclosed place’, or even ‘cemetery’, which was added to Ampezzo, the name of the valley here in the Alps, in 1923. Ampezzo comes from pezzo ‘piece (of land)’.

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