My fiancee and I are planning to visit northern Italy for our honeymoon, starting around the end of June. We have a couple of weeks in all, and while I plan to make it to the Lake District for a couple of days, to Venice for a day, etc. we're hoping to spend the majority of the time in the Dolomites.
I have a couple of guide books on the various via ferratas there (the two volume Cicerone guides by Smith and Fletcher, and one other similar sized book whose name I forget, which was translated from Italian), but the sheer number of routes in these is pretty overwhelming for someone who's never visited the area before. And most of the pictures have me salivating, so it isn't easy to separate the wheat from the chaff.
(1) Does anyone have suggestions for must-climb peaks in the area? My fiancee does not have much experience with snow, which seems to rule out options like Marmolada, which would otherwise be on my list. Neither of us have climbed a via ferrata before; my fiancee does not lead, so I assume self-belaying on the ferrata may still be unnerving to her, so I'd rather find stuff towards the easier end of the spectrum, at least initially. (She does well scrambling class 4, although it unnerves me to watch her on this.)
For what it's worth, Gran Cir/Piz da Cir, Sassongher, and Kleine Fermeda (not a ferrata, but sounds cool) all caught my eye, but this is probably a pretty haphazard selection. Easier days are probably preferred to longer days, since it is our honeymoon after all.
(2) Is a car necessary for travel in this area? I gather from various SP pages that this is helpful if pursuing a normal climbing schedule, but given that we'll have a more relaxed itinerary and aren't planning on particularly long days, it would be nice if we could get by with just train/bus.
Any other suggestions for hikes, things to see in the general area, etc. would be welcome as well.
Thanks in advance.