{"id":14,"date":"2026-04-29T19:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soprailuoghicomuni.chamoisservizi.it\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2026-06-12T18:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:18:15","slug":"il-bivio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/soprailuoghicomuni.chamoisservizi.it\/index.php\/il-bivio\/","title":{"rendered":"Il bivio"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>The great divide<\/h3>\n<p> ROAD OR rope.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In the late 1940s, Chamois reached a breaking point: in just twenty-five years, the population had plummeted by over 50% and the village was at risk of vanishing entirely. Without a connection to the valley, life in Chamois was no longer sustainable. A decision had to be made on how to break the isolation without losing the village\u2019s soul.<\/p>\n<p>To reverse this trend and provide a concrete solution to the emergency, the municipal administration resolved on May 6th 1950 to build the first cable car system. Construction, entrusted to the Agudio company, began in 1954. The system was inaugurated in 1955, finally bringing an end to centuries of isolation and hardship. The eight-passenger cabins covered the once long and strenuous journey in just a few minutes, climbing the 700-meter vertical drop at a speed of 4.7 meters per second.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1960s, however, the need for a more efficient and higher-capacity connection became clear. The community of Chamois was divided between two solutions: a motor road or a cable car. Many saw asphalt as the symbol of progress, and they even commissioned feasibility studies to evaluate a road connection through La Magdeleine. Others, however, had observed the efficiency of cable systems abroad, and they advocated for maintaining and expanding the cable car, fiercely defending Chamois\u2019 identity as an &#8220;oasis of peace&#8221; far from the noise of cars.<\/p>\n<p>The value of this choice was clearly reflected in the 1964 public consultation: 60% of residents voted in favor of the cable car, with 35% against and 5% abstaining. These figures prove that the &#8220;path through the air&#8221; was not a top-down decision, but a conscious choice by the inhabitants to preserve their land from noise and pollution.<\/p>\n<p>After several economic studies and debates that reached the Regional Council, the Municipal Council made its final decision on March 17th 1962, voting in favor of a new cable car system and revoking all requests for a road.<\/p>\n<p>With the inauguration of the second system by Ceretti &amp; Tanfani in 1968, Chamois definitively chose not to &#8220;pollute itself with asphalt&#8221;, transforming its geographical limitation into an invaluable asset of silence and uniqueness, making the village a &#8220;unicum&#8221; in Italy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>IL BIVIO<\/h3>\n<p>STRADA O FILO.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Alla fine degli anni \u201940, la situazione a Chamois era critica: in venticinque anni la popolazione era diminuita di oltre il 50%, e il borgo rischiava di scomparire. Senza un collegamento con la valle, la vita a Chamois non era pi\u00f9 sostenibile. Bisognava decidere come rompere l\u2019isolamento senza snaturarsi.<\/p>\n<p>Fu proprio per invertire questa rotta e dare una risposta concreta all\u2019emergenza, il 6 maggio 1950, l\u2019amministrazione comunale deliber\u00f2 la costruzione del primo impianto funiviario. I lavori, affidati alla ditta Agudio, ebbero inizio nel 1954 e l\u2019impianto, inaugurato nel 1955, riusc\u00ec a porre finalmente fine a secoli di isolamento e difficolt\u00e0. Le cabine da otto posti, infatti, compivano il diversamente faticoso e lungo tragitto in pochi minuti, superando i 700 metri di dislivello con una velocit\u00e0 di 4,7 metri al secondo.<\/p>\n<p>Negli anni \u201960, per\u00f2, inizio a farsi sentire la necessit\u00e0 di un collegamento pi\u00f9 efficiente e capiente. La comunit\u00e0 di Chamois si divise tra due soluzioni: la strada carrozzabile o la funivia. Molti vedevano nell\u2019asfalto il simbolo del progresso, e furono anche commissionati studi di fattibilit\u00e0 per valutare un allacciamento stradale attraverso La Magdeleine. Ma altri, che avevano osservato l\u2019efficienza degli impianti a fune all\u2019estero, sostenevano il mantenimento e l\u2019ampliamento della funivia e difendevano con forza l\u2019identit\u00e0 di Chamois come \u201coasi di pace\u201d lontano dai rumori delle auto.<\/p>\n<p>Il valore di questa scelta emerse chiaramente dai dati della consultazione popolare del 1964: il 60% dei residenti si dichiar\u00f2 favorevole alla funivia, contro il 35% di contrari e il 5% di astenuti. Questi numeri dimostrano che la \u201cvia dell\u2019aria\u201d non fu una decisione calata dall\u2019alto, ma una volont\u00e0 consapevole degli abitanti per preservare il proprio territorio dai rumori e dall\u2019inquinamento.<\/p>\n<p>Dopo diversi studi economici e vari dibattiti giunti fino in Consiglio Regionale, il 17 marzo 1962, il Consiglio Comunale prese la sua decisione definitiva votando a favore del nuovo impianto funiviario e revocando ogni richiesta per la strada. <\/p>\n<p>Con l\u2019inaugurazione del secondo impianto targato Ceretti &amp; Tanfani nel 1968, Chamois scelse definitivamente di non \u201cinquinarsi con l\u2019asfalto\u201d, trasformando il proprio limite geografico in un valore inalienabile di silenzio e unicit\u00e0, rendendo il borgo un \u201cunicum\u201d in Italia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Le dilemme<\/h3>\n<p>Route ou c\u00e2ble.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00c0 la fin des ann\u00e9es \u201840, la situation \u00e0 Chamois \u00e9tait devenue critique : en vingt-cinq ann\u00e9es la population avait baiss\u00e9 de plus de 50% et la commune risquait la disparition. Sans une liaison fiable avec la vall\u00e9e, la vie \u00e0 Chamois n\u2019\u00e9tait plus possible. Il fallait d\u00e9cider de quelle fa\u00e7on rompre l\u2019isolement sans se d\u00e9naturer.<\/p>\n<p>Ce fut vraiment pour inverser cette destin\u00e9e et donner une r\u00e9ponse concr\u00e8te \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9mergence que, le 6 mai 1950, l\u2019Administration communale d\u00e9lib\u00e9ra la construction du premier t\u00e9l\u00e9ph\u00e9rique. Les travaux, confi\u00e9s \u00e0 l\u2019entreprise Agudio, d\u00e9but\u00e8rent en 1954 et l\u2019installation, inaugur\u00e9e en 1955, r\u00e9ussit enfin \u00e0 mettre un terme \u00e0 des si\u00e8cles de difficult\u00e9s et d\u2019isolement. En effet, les cabines \u00e0 huit places parcouraient en quelques minutes seulement, \u00e0 une vitesse de 4,7z m par seconde, un trajet qui autrefois demeurait long et \u00e9puisant, pour surmonter les quelques 700 m de d\u00e9nivel\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<p>Au cours des ann\u00e9es \u201860, toutefois, la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d\u2019une liaison plus performante, assurant un plus grand d\u00e9bit, rouvrit le d\u00e9bat. La communaut\u00e9 de Chamois se partagea entre deux solutions : la route carrossable ou le t\u00e9l\u00e9ph\u00e9rique. Plusieurs voyaient dans le goudron le symbole du progr\u00e8s et l\u2019on commissionna m\u00eame des \u00e9tudes de faisabilit\u00e9 pour \u00e9valuer une liaison routi\u00e8re \u00e0 partir de La Magdeleine. Par contre, d\u2019autres, ayant observ\u00e9 l\u2019efficience des t\u00e9l\u00e9ph\u00e9riques \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9tranger, voulaient garder, voire agrandir et r\u00e9nover l\u2019ancien t\u00e9l\u00e9ph\u00e9rique, liaison plus facile \u00e0 entretenir en hiver : cela dans le but de d\u00e9fendre avec force l\u2019identit\u00e9 de Chamois en tant que \u201coasis de paix\u201d, loin des bruits des voitures.<\/p>\n<p>La valeur de ce choix appara\u00eet clairement des donn\u00e9es de la consultation populaire de 1964 : 60% des habitants se d\u00e9clar\u00e8rent favorables au t\u00e9l\u00e9ph\u00e9rique, contre 35% de voix contre et 5% d\u2019abstenus. Ces chiffres d\u00e9montrent que la \u201cvoie de l\u2019air\u201d ne fut point une d\u00e9cision tomb\u00e9e d\u2019en haut, mais une volont\u00e9 assum\u00e9e de la part des habitants afin de pr\u00e9server leur territoire des bruits et de la pollution.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c0 la suite de diff\u00e9rentes \u00e9tudes \u00e9conomiques et de plusieurs d\u00e9bats aboutissant m\u00eame au Conseil R\u00e9gional de la Vall\u00e9e, le 17 mars 1962, le Conseil Communal vota d\u00e9finitivement pour r\u00e9nover le t\u00e9l\u00e9ph\u00e9rique et renoncer \u00e0 toute d\u00e9marche pour une route carrossable.<\/p>\n<p>Par l\u2019inauguration du deuxi\u00e8me t\u00e9l\u00e9ph\u00e9rique de l\u2019entreprise Ceretti &amp; Tanfani en 1968, Chamois choisit d\u00e9finitivement de ne pas \u201cse polluer avec le goudron\u201d, transformant une contrainte g\u00e9ographique en une valeur inali\u00e9nable de silence et d\u2019exclusivit\u00e9, qui rendait le bourg un \u201cunicum\u201d en Italie.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1><span class=\"HwtZe\" jsname=\"jqKxS\" jsaction=\"mouseup:Sxi9L,BR6jm; mousedown:qjlr0e\" lang=\"en\"><span jsname=\"txFAF\" class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\" jsaction=\"agoMJf:PFBcW;MZfLnc:P7O7bd;nt4Alf:pvnm0e,pfE8Hb,PFBcW;B01qod:dJXsye;H1e5u:iXtTIf;lYIUJf:hij5Wb;tSpjdb:qAKMYb\" jscontroller=\"BiTO4b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\" jsname=\"W297wb\" jsaction=\"click:PDNqTc,GFf3ac,qlVvte;contextmenu:Nqw7Te,QP7LD; mouseout:Nqw7Te; mouseover:PDNqTc,c2aHje\">\u201cThis cable car has set everything right, healing a situation that had become unsustainable.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Gigi Movilia<\/strong><br \/>1955, from Il Settimo Giorno<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h1>\u201cQuesta funivia ha messo tutto a posto, ha sanato una situazione che era diventata insostenibile.\u201d<\/h1>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Gigi Movilia<\/strong><br \/>1955, tratta da Il Settimo Giorno<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h1>\u00ab Ce t\u00e9l\u00e9ph\u00e9rique a mis tout en place, il a r\u00e9solu une situation devenue insoutenable. \u00bb<\/h1>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Gigi Movilia<\/strong><br \/>1955, tir\u00e9 de Il Settimo Giorno<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Il-bivio-07.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Il-bivio-01.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<h3>Il-bivio-01<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Il-bivio-02.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<h3>Il-bivio-02<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Il-bivio-03.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<h3>Il-bivio-03<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Il-bivio-04.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<h3>Il-bivio-04<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Il-bivio-05.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<h3>Il-bivio-05<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Il-bivio-06.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<h3>Il-bivio-06<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Il-bivio-08-2.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<h3>Il-bivio-08-2<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Il-bivio-08-3.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<h3>Il-bivio-08-3<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Il-bivio-08-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<h3>Il-bivio-08-1<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Il-bivio-08-4.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<h3>Il-bivio-08-4<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Il-bivio-08-5-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<h3>Il-bivio-08-5<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<!-- 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Without a connection to the valley, life in Chamois was no longer sustainable. A decision had to be made on how to break the isolation without losing the village\u2019s soul.<\/p>\n\n\\n\n\n<p>To reverse this trend and provide a concrete solution to the emergency, the municipal administration resolved on May 6th 1950 to build the first cable car system. Construction, entrusted to the Agudio company, began in 1954. The system was inaugurated in 1955, finally bringing an end to centuries of isolation and hardship. The eight-passenger cabins covered the once long and strenuous journey in just a few minutes, climbing the 700-meter vertical drop at a speed of 4.7 meters per second.<\/p>\n\n\\n\n\n<p>In the 1960s, however, the need for a more efficient and higher-capacity connection became clear. The community of Chamois was divided between two solutions: a motor road or a cable car. Many saw asphalt as the symbol of progress, and they even commissioned feasibility studies to evaluate a road connection through La Magdeleine. Others, however, had observed the efficiency of cable systems abroad, and they advocated for maintaining and expanding the cable car, fiercely defending Chamois\u2019 identity as an \\\"oasis of peace\\\" far from the noise of cars.<\/p>\n\n\\n\n\n<p>The value of this choice was clearly reflected in the 1964 public consultation: 60% of residents voted in favor of the cable car, with 35% against and 5% abstaining. 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Senza un collegamento con la valle, la vita a Chamois non era pi\u00f9 sostenibile. Bisognava decidere come rompere l\u2019isolamento senza snaturarsi.<\/p>\n\n\\n\n\n<p>Fu proprio per invertire questa rotta e dare una risposta concreta all\u2019emergenza, il 6 maggio 1950, l\u2019amministrazione comunale deliber\u00f2 la costruzione del primo impianto funiviario. I lavori, affidati alla ditta Agudio, ebbero inizio nel 1954 e l\u2019impianto, inaugurato nel 1955, riusc\u00ec a porre finalmente fine a secoli di isolamento e difficolt\u00e0. Le cabine da otto posti, infatti, compivano il diversamente faticoso e lungo tragitto in pochi minuti, superando i 700 metri di dislivello con una velocit\u00e0 di 4,7 metri al secondo.<\/p>\n\n\\n\n\n<p>Negli anni \u201960, per\u00f2, inizio a farsi sentire la necessit\u00e0 di un collegamento pi\u00f9 efficiente e capiente. La comunit\u00e0 di Chamois si divise tra due soluzioni: la strada carrozzabile o la funivia. Molti vedevano nell\u2019asfalto il simbolo del progresso, e furono anche commissionati studi di fattibilit\u00e0 per valutare un allacciamento stradale attraverso La Magdeleine. Ma altri, che avevano osservato l\u2019efficienza degli impianti a fune all\u2019estero, sostenevano il mantenimento e l\u2019ampliamento della funivia e difendevano con forza l\u2019identit\u00e0 di Chamois come \u201coasi di pace\u201d lontano dai rumori delle auto.<\/p>\n\n\\n\n\n<p>Il valore di questa scelta emerse chiaramente dai dati della consultazione popolare del 1964: il 60% dei residenti si dichiar\u00f2 favorevole alla funivia, contro il 35% di contrari e il 5% di astenuti. Questi numeri dimostrano che la \u201cvia dell\u2019aria\u201d non fu una decisione calata dall\u2019alto, ma una volont\u00e0 consapevole degli abitanti per preservare il proprio territorio dai rumori e dall\u2019inquinamento.<\/p>\n\n\\n\n\n<p>Dopo diversi studi economici e vari dibattiti giunti fino in Consiglio Regionale, il 17 marzo 1962, il Consiglio Comunale prese la sua decisione definitiva votando a favore del nuovo impianto funiviario e revocando ogni richiesta per la strada. <\/p>\n\n\\n\n\n<p>Con l\u2019inaugurazione del secondo impianto targato Ceretti &amp; Tanfani nel 1968, Chamois scelse definitivamente di non \u201cinquinarsi con l\u2019asfalto\u201d, trasformando il proprio limite geografico in un valore inalienabile di silenzio e unicit\u00e0, rendendo il borgo un \u201cunicum\u201d in Italia.<\/p>\n\n\",\"label\":\"IT\",\"meta\":\"STRADA O FILO.\",\"title\":\"IL BIVIO\"}},{\"type\":\"switcher_item\",\"props\":{\"content\":\"\n\n<p>\u00c0 la fin des ann\u00e9es \u201840, la situation \u00e0 Chamois \u00e9tait devenue critique : en vingt-cinq ann\u00e9es la population avait baiss\u00e9 de plus de 50% et la commune risquait la disparition. Sans une liaison fiable avec la vall\u00e9e, la vie \u00e0 Chamois n\u2019\u00e9tait plus possible. Il fallait d\u00e9cider de quelle fa\u00e7on rompre l\u2019isolement sans se d\u00e9naturer.<\/p>\n\n\\n\n\n<p>Ce fut vraiment pour inverser cette destin\u00e9e et donner une r\u00e9ponse concr\u00e8te \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9mergence que, le 6 mai 1950, l\u2019Administration communale d\u00e9lib\u00e9ra la construction du premier t\u00e9l\u00e9ph\u00e9rique. Les travaux, confi\u00e9s \u00e0 l\u2019entreprise Agudio, d\u00e9but\u00e8rent en 1954 et l\u2019installation, inaugur\u00e9e en 1955, r\u00e9ussit enfin \u00e0 mettre un terme \u00e0 des si\u00e8cles de difficult\u00e9s et d\u2019isolement. 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Par contre, d\u2019autres, ayant observ\u00e9 l\u2019efficience des t\u00e9l\u00e9ph\u00e9riques \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9tranger, voulaient garder, voire agrandir et r\u00e9nover l\u2019ancien t\u00e9l\u00e9ph\u00e9rique, liaison plus facile \u00e0 entretenir en hiver : cela dans le but de d\u00e9fendre avec force l\u2019identit\u00e9 de Chamois en tant que \u201coasis de paix\u201d, loin des bruits des voitures.<\/p>\n\n\\n\n\n<p>La valeur de ce choix appara\u00eet clairement des donn\u00e9es de la consultation populaire de 1964 : 60% des habitants se d\u00e9clar\u00e8rent favorables au t\u00e9l\u00e9ph\u00e9rique, contre 35% de voix contre et 5% d\u2019abstenus. 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