Why are the Dolomites so breathtaking and why I spend my vacation every year in the Dolomites ?

Why are the Dolomites so breathtaking and why I spend my vacation every year in the Dolomites ?
The Dolomites MUST-SEE (UNESCO World
Heritage Centre)
The site of the Dolomites comprises a mountain range in the northern Italian Alps (near Austria and Slovenia ) numbering 18 peaks which rise to above 3,000 metres and cover 141,903 ha. It features some of the most beautiful mountain landscapes ON THE WORLD, with vertical walls, sheer cliffs and a high density of narrow, deep and long valleys. A serial property of nine areas that present a diversity of spectacular landscapes of international significance for geomorphology marked by steeples, pinnacles and rock walls, the site also contains glacial landforms and karst systems. It is characterized by dynamic processes with frequent landslides, floods and avalanches. The property also features one of the best examples of the preservation of Mesozoic carbonate platform systems, with fossil records.
The Dolomites are made of dolomitic limestone, a rare material that gives the mountains their signature spires, sheer cliff faces, and crags.
The secret of their extraordinary fascination is that they perfectly personify the Sublime, an aesthetic category only referring to Nature. Verticality, grandeur, monumentality, barrenness, dizziness, shock. These are all characteristics of the Sublime described in aesthetic essays just a few years before the “discovery” of the Dolomites. The structured topography and colour spectrum, the extraordinary contrast between the gentle contours of the meadows and the sudden verticality of completely naked imposing peaks, the incredible variety of sculptural shapes are the key to defining the “Dolomitic landscape”, that is the typology of mountain scenery which finds its archetype and maximum expression here.