{"product_id":"tonale-ski-resort-proto-piste-trail-map-and-mountain-panoramas-raci-1939-p-6-112344","title":"Tonale—Ski resort proto-piste\/trail map and mountain panoramas—RACI 1939","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e[Neve in montagna: guide autosciatorie, I serie, no. 11:] Tonale\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 Passo del Tonale, spanning the high pass between Ponte di Legno and Vermiglio beneath the Presena–Adamello skyline. Published in 1939, it records the resort at the very moment mechanical uplift arrived. An Istituto Geografico Militare contour base is overprinted with extensive red downhill ski routes and flagged starting points, broad blue-shaded ski grounds, the blue pass road and a green slittovia north of Tonale; routes extend towards Ponte di Legno, Vermiglio and Passo Presena. Labelled photographs around all four sides help skiers identify the surrounding summits. The design therefore performs the two jobs of a modern piste map—precise route planning and intuitive reading of mountain terrain—but keeps them graphically 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. Its slittovia was a cable-hauled passenger sledge, winched uphill over snow before chairlifts and surface lifts superseded this short-lived technology. Tonale’s first installation dates to 1939, making the map a near-contemporary record of the pass’s conversion from touring landscape into mechanised ski resort.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53896242397531,"sku":"P-6-112344","price":130.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-6-112344a.jpg?v=1787833519","url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/fr\/products\/tonale-ski-resort-proto-piste-trail-map-and-mountain-panoramas-raci-1939-p-6-112344","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}