Abstract
Alta Valtellina is a culturally complex and rich territory that has been dramatically transformed through the rise of skiing tourism, becoming one of the major skiing areas and competition sites in the Alps. In the prospect of the 2026 Winter Games, this chapter explores how the cultural legacy of mega-events can strengthen the landscape and (re)produce contemporary services in the area. Through design-oriented research based on knowledge synthesis, this chapter contributes to understanding how Alta Valtellina can comprehensively enrich the Winter Games’ cultural agenda from a non-urban mountain perspective. Against the background of field research, the text contains design ideas, proposals for contemporary services, and schemes for a cultural legacy that can embrace the geographical and landscape complexity of the analyzed mountain region. In this framework, it specifically selects four sites that can be transformed and activated before, during, and beyond the Games.
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According to Girginov and Preuss (2021), understood as a public value.
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For more details, see Sects. 2 and 3.
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See also Sect. 5.
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See also Sect. 2.
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Classification by the national program Rete Rurale Nazionale: https://www.reterurale.it/ (last accessed on June 10, 2023).
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The Valtellina che gusto! Agri-food district consists of 49 medium and small-sized companies: https://agriregionieuropa.univpm.it/it/content/article/31/34/il-distretto-agroalimentare-di-qualita-della-valtellina-uno-strumento-la (last accessed on December 11, 2023).
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Alta Valtellina’s cuisine is known for products such as Casera and Bitto cheeses, Olden and Stark apples, and PGI-certified Bresaola ham.
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https://www.airbnb.com/d/liveandworkanywhere (last accessed on June 9, 2023).
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The program defines six themes: Art and Photography, Music and Opera, Theatre, Cinema, Fashion, Design and Creativity, and Food (Milan-Cortina 2026, 2019).
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The Municipality of Bormio possesses a comprehensive inventory of its built historic assets, together with stringent legislation governing various levels of intervention initiatives: https://www.multiplan.servizirl.it/pgtwebn/#/public/dettaglio-piano/77480/documenti (last accessed on December 12, 2023).
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Energy production in Valtellina, specifically in the field of hydroelectric energy, is significant. The infrastructure of Alta Valtellina underlies a catchment area of approximately 1000 km2, i.e., the whole territory of the province of Sondrio (A2A Energia, 2023). The gravity arch dam of Lake Cancano, crowned at an altitude of 1902 meters, was built between 1954 and 1956 to replace the previous dam dating back to 1922 and to expand the generative capacity of the reservoir. The Cancano reservoir is fed by the waters derived from the Viola Canal and by the waters withdrawn from the San Giacomo reservoir, released by the homonymous power station.
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The system of case cantoniere refers to the roadman houses distributed along the Italian “state” highways that once served as service support stations for road maintenance.
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Currently, the pass is closed in the winter season.
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A precedent is the cycling museum Madonna del Ghisallo near Lake Como.
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http://lavocedellamontagna.it/2017/01/case-cantoniere (last accessed on June 12, 2023).
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Aboutalebi Tabrizi, H., Cao, H., Manimekalai Sowrirajan, T., Salvador, A.J. (2024). Culture as a Trans-Scalar Encounter: The Increase of Livability Through the Integration of Landscape and Services. In: Arcidiacono, A., Di Vita, S. (eds) Beyond the 2026 Winter Olympic Games. Mega Event Planning. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8092-5_6
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