Museum "Dolomitos" is located in the small town of San Candido in the popular ski resort of Alta Pusteria .  Within the walls of this museum, you can feel like a real explorer and make an incredible journey back in time to the very moment when the formation of a grand miracle of nature - the Dolomites .  It is a journey, one of the most exciting on the ground will allow to touch the mysteries of the past, which will tell the silent fossils - eternal witnesses of how the changing landscape, the flora and fauna of the region in different geological epochs .  That the land on which now the majestic Dolomites, was once the bottom of a tropical sea millions of years, the population among ammonites - spectacular coral formations .  Then, from the bottom of the oceans began erupting volcanoes have shaped the modern landscape, and the lava from the eruption forever canned and preserved remains of plants and animals that lived on the earth in those age . 

In the 1789-1790-th years the region of Alto Adige - South Tyrol visited Deodato de Dolomё, who became the founder of the study of the Dolomites, consisting of magnesium-rich dolomite .  Until now, these amazing mountains like a magnet beckon scientists and researchers of nature .  Also worth mentioning Miss Ogilvie-Gordon, English geologist, who for many years studied the rocks in La Valle and San Cassiano .  Many well-known geologists of the last century have dedicated their lives to the study of the bizarre and grandiose landscape of the Dolomites, while many climbers and mountaineers, charmed local peaks, laid the first tracks on the mountain tops .  But the diversity and beauty of dolomite rocks and minerals attracted the attention not only of scientists and active recreation .  These keepers of the secrets of the earth, literally soaked in mysteries and secrets have always been closely linked to the legends and sagas are passed from generation to generation .  These stories spoke of precious stones and their miraculous healing powers, as well as Kroderes - mythical race, known as the Sons of the Stones, and an Aurora, Queen of Light .  Hear these ancient traditions and today it is possible in the villages scattered in the valleys of the Dolomites, and the museum in San Candido .  There you can witness the rich collection of fossils .