{"title":"Cristallo","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"cortina-d-ampezzo-ski-resort-proto-piste-trail-map-mountain-panoramas-raci-1939-p-6-112492","title":"Cortina d’Ampezzo—Ski resort proto-piste\/trail map—mountain panoramas—RACI 1939","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e[Neve in montagna: guide autosciatorie, I serie, no. 13:] Cortina d’Ampezzo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn exceptionally early Italian ski-area map of Cortina d’Ampezzo, published in 1939 as mechanical uplift was transforming the resort. Its Istituto Geografico Militare contour base is overprinted with red downhill routes and flagged starting points, blue-shaded ski grounds, blue approach roads and green lift lines. These include the Col Drusciè slittovia and aerial cableways towards Pocol and Faloria. Labelled winter photographs around all four sides identify Cristallo, the Tofane and neighbouring Dolomite peaks, helping skiers translate the conventional plan into the mountain landscape. The design therefore performs the two jobs of a modern piste map—route planning and intuitive recognition of terrain—but keeps them graphically separate. Produced as Heinrich C. Berann’s pioneering oblique winter panoramas were emerging, it is a compelling transitional or “proto-modern” piste map: a precursor in design to the familiar all-in-one panoramic form, though contemporary with its earliest examples. Particularly evocative is the slittovia, a now-obsolete cable-hauled passenger sledge, winched uphill over snow before chairlifts and surface lifts displaced it. Faloria’s cableway opened on 5 February 1939, while the Cortina–Belvedere connection to Pocol has since disappeared: the map preserves both the beginnings of a familiar landmark and a lost chapter of the resort’s skiing history.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54231580967259,"sku":"P-6-112492","price":180.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-6-112492a.jpg?v=1790884691"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/collections\/cristallo.oembed","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}