A2✈️ Travel
Italian word
rifugio
mountain hut / refuge (Alpine shelter for hikers)
Looks like
refuge
refuge = a safe place of shelter
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Generally a safe cognate, but in Italy 'rifugio' very specifically refers to a staffed mountain hut in the Alps or Apennines where hikers sleep and eat. It is not just any shelter.
To say "refuge = a safe place of shelter" in Italian:
rifugio alpino
"rifugio" in English means:
mountain hut / refuge (Alpine shelter for hikers)
Example
"Abbiamo dormito in un rifugio alpino a duemila metri."
"We slept in an Alpine hut at two thousand metres."
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