Peč, Mountain peak at Austria-Italy-Slovenia tripoint in Karawanken range.
Peč, also called Ofen or Monte Forno, is a 1,508-metre summit in the Western Karawanken where the borders of Austria, Italy and Slovenia meet. The Austrian side, in the municipality of Arnoldstein, holds most of the massif; Tarvisio lies in Italy and Kranjska Gora in Slovenia. A chairlift from Arnoldstein and trails from Fusine in Valromana and Rateče reach the top.
The summit began marking the tripoint boundary in 1924. Stone monuments with inscriptions in Italian, German, and Slovenian commemorate this formal agreement between the three nations.
The mountain's names all mean 'oven' or 'rock': German Ofen, Slovene Peč and Italian Forno, while Dreiländereck is a modern coinage for the tripoint. Because German, Italian and Slovene meet here, the summit is compared with the Dreisprachenspitze at the Stilfserjoch.
Trails to the summit start from Fusine in Valromana in Italy and from Rateče in Slovenia. From the Austrian side, the Dreiländereck chairlift from Arnoldstein carries visitors up to altitude. The Austrian slopes also hold 17 km of ski runs: 6 blue, 7 red and 4 black.
On clear days, visitors can see from the Julian Alps in the south to the High Tauern mountains in the north. This sweeping view reveals how three distinct alpine regions come together visually and geographically.
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