The scenic beauty and breathtaking grandeur of traveling via the Nice-Coni Line, which crossed Italy and France by way of a five-mile tunnel through the peak of the Alps, is nostalgically depicted in the warm colors and dramatic art deco style of this poster. Called the Train of the Wonders, for the Valley of the Wonders which it traversed, it was a tourist train from September through December, when a guide was aboard to comment on scenery. Considered an engineering masterpiece, the railway’s construction began in 1928, was interrupted by destruction and damage during World War II, and was finally completed in 1979.

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