Touring Club Italiano

The Touring Club Ciclistico Italiano (TCCI) was founded on 8 November 1894 by a group of bicyclists to promote the values of cycling and travel.

[1] Among the founding members was Luigi Vittorio Bertarelli [it], who became president in 1919;[2] at his death in 1926, he was succeeded by Giovanni Bognetti.

[4] Through the years, it has produced a wide variety of maps, guidebooks, and more specialized studies, and is known for its high standard of cartography.

During the Fascist period, the red guides were also extended to cover Italian colonies and overseas territories.

Among many other publications the Touring Club Italiano, along with Club Alpino Italiano, published between 1908 and 2013 the Guida dei Monti d'Italia (English: Guidebook to the Italian mountains), a series of guidebooks covering all the mountain ranges of Italy.