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Sestriere at Vialattea
Sestriere at Vialattea. 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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- Sestriere at Vialattea
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
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- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
BEFORE MODERN SPORT
Sestriere
How settlement, access and winter sport shaped Sestriere.
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Sestriere is a ski resort in Piedmont, Italy, a comune (municipality) of the Metropolitan City of Turin.
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BEFORE TOURISM
Work and settlement beneath the snowline
Its name derives from Latin: ad petram sistrariam, that is at sixty Roman miles from Turin.
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ACCESS CHANGES
A route reaches Sestriere
The two hotel towers, one of which was part of the Olympic Village, were built in the 1930s by FIAT's founder Giovanni Agnelli, and have become the symbol of the village; these were the first buildings of the village.
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Hotel Tana Della Volpe
The restaurant and hotel Tana Della Volpe sits atop mount Banchetta, one of the peaks of the Sestriere ski resort within the Vialattea ski area in Italy. The hotel is accessible only by ski lift and stands at an elevation of 2555 m. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- The restaurant and hotel Tana Della Volpe sits atop mount Banchetta, one of the peaks of the Sestriere ski resort within the Vialattea ski area in Italy. The hotel is accessible only by ski lift and stands at an elevation of 2555 m
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- Open-licence photograph
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1997
Winter becomes organised
It regularly hosts FIS Alpine Ski World Cup events, and it hosted the FIS World Championships in 1997, and the IPC World Championships in 2011.
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THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Sestriere is recorded at 44.955° N, 6.879° E. Its catalogue reference reaches 2,823 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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Sestriere at Vialattea
Sestriere at Vialattea. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Sestriere at Vialattea
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
TODAY
Sestriere now
Sestriere is a popular skiing resort; during the winter holidays the population goes up to about 20,000 people.
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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
Sestriere at Vialattea
AOD.EU.SESTRIERE.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hotel Tana Della Volpe
AOD.EU.SESTRIERE.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Editorial record
Full European Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Sestriere overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.