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Breuil-Cervinia panorama
Breuil-Cervinia panorama. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
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- Breuil-Cervinia panorama
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- original
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- Open-licence photograph
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- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
BEFORE MODERN SPORT
Cervinia
How settlement, access and winter sport shaped Cervinia.
Scroll to read the contour through time
Breuil-Cervinia (French: Breuil; Italian: Cervinia; Valdôtain: Breuill) is a frazione of the comune of Valtournenche, Italy.
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BEFORE TOURISM
Work and settlement beneath the snowline
On the one hand was Breuil, in French, the original name of the place before the tourist settlement was built, derived from Valdôtain dialect Breuill indicating a marshy meadow, or a field where streams are numerous.
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1934
A route reaches Cervinia
In 1934, the road connecting the main town of Valtournenche, Pâquier, to Breuil was built.
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Matterhorn-SouthSide-viewedFromSkiRegionBreuilCervinia
South side of the Matterhorn, photograph taken from the skiing region Breuil-Cervinia. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
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- South side of the Matterhorn, photograph taken from the skiing region Breuil-Cervinia
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- original
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- Open-licence photograph
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- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
1977
Winter becomes organised
Breuil-Cervinia hosted the Women's Alpine Ski World Cup in the 1977–1978 season on 10 December 1977, the first time in the history of the alpine resort, with a slalom stage on the Cielo Alto slope.
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THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Cervinia is recorded at 45.936° N, 7.631° E. Its catalogue reference reaches 3,480 metres. A modern resort map compresses terrain, exposure and access into a diagram. This exhibition keeps the underlying contour visible so the place does not become only a list of facilities.
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Breuil-Cervinia panorama
Breuil-Cervinia panorama. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Breuil-Cervinia panorama
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
TODAY
Cervinia now
In 1934, together with other Piedmontese entrepreneurs, Dino Lora Totino founded the Società Anonima Cervino, with the aim of transforming Breuil into an important tourist destination by building modern ski lifts.
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THE LEDGER
Sources and credits
This exhibition is built from local, institutional and sporting records. The source ledger keeps the claims visible and leaves space for correction as further local evidence emerges.
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Artefacts in order of appearance
Breuil-Cervinia panorama
AOD.EU.CERVINIA.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Matterhorn-SouthSide-viewedFromSkiRegionBreuilCervinia
AOD.EU.CERVINIA.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Editorial record
Full European Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Breuil-Cervinia overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.