{"product_id":"bosco-chiesanuova-ski-resort-proto-piste-trail-map-mountain-panoramas-raci-1939-p-6-112346","title":"Bosco Chiesanuova—Ski resort proto-piste\/trail map\/mountain panoramas—RACI 1939","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e[Neve in montagna: guide autosciatorie, I serie, no. 15:] Bosco Chiesanuova\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 the Lessinia plateau around Bosco Chiesanuova, Erbezzo, Velo Veronese, Castelberto and Cima Malera. Published in 1939, its Istituto Geografico Militare contour base is overprinted with an extensive network of red downhill ski routes, flagged starting points, numerous blue-shaded ski grounds and a short access-road section near Bosco. No lift is actually plotted, despite the standard legend including slittovie—now-obsolete cable-hauled passenger sledges—funivie and installations under construction: this remains principally a landscape of route-based skiing rather than a developed mechanical network. Broad labelled photographic panoramas identify both the immediate Lessini terrain and the distant Alpine skyline, helping the skier translate the conventional map into the landscape. The design therefore performs the two jobs of a modern piste map—practical route planning and intuitive recognition of mountain terrain—but keeps them separate. Produced just as Heinrich C. Berann’s pioneering oblique winter panoramas were emerging, it is a fascinating transitional or “proto-modern” piste map: a precursor in design to the familiar all-in-one panoramic form, though contemporary with its earliest examples. Declared a climatic station in 1928, Bosco Chiesanuova was then emerging as Verona’s principal summer and winter resort, before lift infrastructure came to dominate ski cartography.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53896242495835,"sku":"P-6-112346","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-6-112346a.jpg?v=1787833519","url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/fr\/products\/bosco-chiesanuova-ski-resort-proto-piste-trail-map-mountain-panoramas-raci-1939-p-6-112346","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}