Hotel San Marco Cortina d’Ampezzo Travel Brochure – 1930's

Vintage folding travel brochure for Hotel San Marco in Cortina d’Ampezzo, set against the dramatic scenery of the Italian Dolomites. A colourful illustrated view presents the hotel in summer, while a separate photographic panel shows the building surrounded by snow. Red lettering and fine linear borders give the design a distinctive interwar travel-advertising character.

The photographic interior introduces the hotel's wicker-furnished lounge, dining room and bedroom, then opens out into a portrait of Cortina as a summer and winter destination. Mountain and lake views appear alongside a cable car, skiing, bobsleigh and ice hockey scenes. Promotional text in Italian, German, French and English reflects the resort's international audience.

Printed by Cooperativa Anonima Poligrafica in Cortina, this six-page brochure is an appealing addition to collections of historic hotel advertising, Italian Alpine tourism and winter-sports ephemera. Its contrasting summer and winter imagery offers a compact record of how the hotel and resort presented themselves to travelling guests. The date is estimated as circa the 1930s; an exact publication year has not been established.

• Type: Folding hotel travel brochure
• Condition: Good (G), with small tears to the cover, fold wear, wavy creasing and paper cockling, possibly caused by past moisture exposure. The cause of the waviness is not confirmed. Please examine all photographs for details.
• Size: 16.5 × 11.5 cm (6.50 × 4.53 inches)
• Style: Interwar travel advertising / Art Deco-era Alpine tourism
• Location: Cortina d’Ampezzo, Dolomites, Italy
• Date: Circa 1930s (estimated)
• Hotel: Hotel San Marco
• Pages: 6
• Language: Italian, German, French and English
• Printer: Cooperativa Anonima Poligrafica, Cortina

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