Photographs show the early years of the Bernina Railway.
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The track was built in 1906-1910 by thousands of Italian workers, sometimes under challenging alpine winter conditions. These photographs, some of which have not been published before, come from the private collections of Luigi Gisep and Olinto Tognina and were digitalised by the Val Poschiavo History Society.
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The Albula and Bernina lines which stretch from Thusis to Tirano are extraordinary examples of the technological innovation, showing man’s mastery of the Alpine landscape. They became a Unesco World Heritage site in July 2008.
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