Three-day creative hike in the Dolomites
Join Panoramica on a three-day hike in the Dolomites north of Venice: meet two creatives, explore the nature and inspire from it, share experience, and support the local communities — yes, all of this at the same time.
Highlights
28-29-30 August 2026
6–8 people in a close-knit group
3 days (nights), weekend
30+ km of hiking in total
310 euro/person from Venice/Verona
Free workshop in 2026
Overview
Panoramica three-day creative hike is a life-changing adventure with Ivan Kuznetsov and Irina Kudres — journalists and photographers with 20 years in the field combined.
The adventure happens in Cismon river valley between four towns: Feltre and Lamon (our base with a hotel) in the Belluno province, Veneto region, and Fiera di Primiero and San Martino di Castrozza in the Trentino province, Trentino — Alto Adige / South Tyrol region (Google Maps). This is the south-eastern and the most non-touristy part of the world-famous UNESCO Dolomites range. Everyone knows and goes to South Tyrol, but not here. During these three days, you will meet two local professionals, make together three challenging picturesque hikes with panoramic views to all sides and share creative works and ideas, while eating Italian food at the best cafés, bars, restaurants, pizzerias and huts in the area. You will meet and make friends with other locals and learn about their ways of life in nature.
The hike will appeal to anyone already familiar with Panoramica’s work, but wants to experience it in a direct way and to share their creative output. In one way or another, it will give a positive energy boost to all three parties — you, us, and other locals.
I want life to be different after the hike, because it just can’t be the same. — Irina Kudres, photographer, Italy, after her first hike in September 2018
Read the photo story about hikes in the Panoramica Journal.
Locals
Ivan Kuznetsov and Irina Kudres are co-founders of Panoramica creative studio. They met during one of the first hikes that Ivan organized in the Dolomites in September 2018. He first came in the region in March 2013 to take part in a year-long volunteer project of Legambiente, the largest Italian environmental association. They moved to Italy together in September 2020, enrolling at the tourism master's degree course at the University of Bergamo, Lombardy. After the study, they returned to the Dolomites, where they have found their new home. In total, they have organized 18 creative hikes for 43 people from Russia, Israel, Mexico, Canada, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and other countries. If you add to that Ivan's work at Legambiente, you get over 100 people who have already came to Italy to meet them, and liked it.
Pricing
310 euro/person from Venice/Verona
What are you paying for:
0 euro — a three-day creative workshop by Ivan and Irina (special offer in 2026)
Then, since it is not an organized guided hiking tour but a meeting for a creative hike together, there are costs for transport, hotel and food:
80 euro — trains and buses to the Dolomites and back, including a cable car to the Pale di San Martino plateau;
150 euro — a double-room (you will share it with other participant) in a 2-star hotel in Lamon for 3 nights with breakfast;
80 euro — three dinners at a restaurant in the same hotel and three lunches (we usually go to the bars supermarkets).
You pay for these expenses independently and directly to the services providers. If you are in other cities of Italy, neighboring countries or outside Europe, add the cost of your trip. The final amount may also be slightly higher or lower, depending on your choice of meals.
We will also give a free advice on how to organize your trip to the Dolomites, what to take with you, where to go next and everything.
Contents
The creative hike lasts three days, where everything is mixed. But in general, the first day is about meeting and knowing each other, the second day is about hiking and learning about nature, and the third day is about sharing creativity.
Day 1: Meeting with Panoramica
We will meet before lunch at the train station in Feltre, a town 100 km north of Venice. It is one of the “gateways” to the Dolomites from the south.
From here we will take a bus to the town of Lamon higher up in the mountains at 600 m (30 minutes). This is our base for the next three days. In the village we will help you check into your hotel, have a lunch together in one of the bars and go for a walk around the village.
In the evening, we’ll have dinner at a pizzeria to celebrate the trip.
You will learn about how we came to this place and started Panoramica studio inspired by the mountains. You will tell us about your place of origin and trip to Italy and about your creativity.
Day 2: Hiking in the mountains
For the whole day we will go on a challenging hike to the nearby Pale di San Martino and Lagorai mountains. These are two neighboring major ranges in the Dolomites and Fiemme mountains, the largest by area, up to 3.000 m. The travel distance from Lamon is just 1–1,5 hours.
Depending on the weather, we will climb a mountain plateau, a pass, a spruce forest, and just walk to the villages of Fiera di Primiero and San Martino di Castrozza. At lunch, we’ll eat at one of the bars or rifugios along the way.
We will take the bus back to Lamon at 16:00–17:00 for a dinner.
You’ll learn about nature, but also history, traditions, culture and other peculiarities of life in this part of the Dolomites and in general, and about our experience of living and creating here.
Day 3: Sharing creative experiences
In the morning we will play an Interview Game based on best questions from the many interviews that Panoramica has recorded over the years of its work. It will help us to get to know each other on an even deeper level, and for you to get to know yourselves better.
After lunch, we will walk to a lost forest lake near Lamon through many smaller villages. In the evening, we will continue to chat about creativity and other topics with dinner at one of the restaurants, or again at a pizzeria.
In the next morning, we will wish you a happy journey back on your return trip from Lamon or from Feltre, depending on your transportation.
You will learn how we write our books and do other things and get some creative tips. To make it real sharing, bring something from your creativity — even your best smartphone photo lately.
Reviews
This great journey has given me mountains of new things. I’ve learned a new side of myself that I’ve never seen before. — Tanya, photographer, self-employed, Moscow, Russia
I don’t know how the hike would have turned out if Ivan hadn’t believed in us. But he did, and it was worth a lot. He blessed us to take the hard route instead of the easy one: “I can see that you will make it!” — Natasha, manager in the game testing group at NVIDIA, San Diego, California, USA
The main impression is not even how beautiful the mountains it is, but understanding of what incredible heights you can climb. — Katya, ex-web data analyst at T-Bank, Moscow, Russia
Read more reviews from participants of creative hikes and get inspired for your life-changing adventure in the Dolomites.
All hike data
Title: Panoramica creative hike: A three-day life-changing adventure
Locals: Ivan Kuznetsov, Irina Kudres
Publisher: Panoramica
Date of first publication: June 2024, updated in July, 2026
Languages: English, Italian, Russian
Format: a group of 6 to 8 people; we are children, families and couples-friendly
Duration: 3 days, it doesn’t have to be the weekends
Season: June to October (4 months)
Dates in 2026: 28-29-30 August
Start: Feltre, Belluno, Veneto. You need to be there from 9 to 14 o’clock with Trenitalia train or your car
Finish: Lamon, Belluno, Veneto. Important: on Sundays there are no buses to/from Lamon
Level of hiking difficulty: middle, preferably in good physical shape, we’ll be doing a lot of up an downhill walking
Altitude gain: 500 to 1,000 m per day (between 300 m in Feltre and 2,700 m in Pale di San Martino)
Total hiking distance in three days: about 30 km (10 km each day)
Meals to expect: local food and drinks at the restaurant, pizzeria, huts and bars and supermarkets in Lamon
Main things to take: see in the Google doc
Cost: 310 euro/person
Gifts: one of Panoramica books and other print products
If you have any questions, feel free to ask us at ciao@panoramica.studio.
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