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Cavalese
Cavalese (Cavalés in local dialect, Gablöss in local german dialect) is a comune of 4,004 inhabitants in Trentino, northern Italy, a ski resort and the main center in the Fiemme Valley. It is part of the Magnifica Comunità di Fiemme (Magnificent Community of Fiemme) and, together with Predazzo, is the administrative, cultural and historical center of the valley.
The town is a renowned tourist location, during winter for cross-country and alpine skiing, and during summer for excursions. The cable car from Cavalese to the nearby mountain Cermis has been the site of two major cable-car accidents,
Cavalese cable car disaster
1998 accident where a US military airplane cut the cable of an aerial tramway

Cermis
thumb|320px|A view of Cermis mountain.
Cermis (Alpe Cermis in italian) is a mountain of the Lagorai group in eastern Trentino, Italy in the comune of Cavalese.

Cavalese cable car disaster
accident where the cable supporting an aerial tramway snapped due to an overlap of carrier with traction cables