The Cembra Valley trails: available cartography
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Many are the Cembran trails; a great contribution to let them know was done in 1989 by the “historic” publication of Parcheggia e cammina (in Italian), edited by the Tourist Board of the Piné Plateau and Cembra Valley.
It deals with a map that, even with an insufficient detail, shows the various paths, and with an excellent illustrated book which, beyond the descriptions of all the trails of the map, it's very rich of detais related to the valley (and it's often quoted in this site.)
Moreover, the parcheggia e cammina project was concerned with the placing of signs, by the municipalities, in all the described trails.
The name "parcheggia e cammina" (park and hike) echoes in the long name of the map printed by the
Tourist Board in 1998: “Carta turistica, scala 1:35˙000 - Altopiano di Piné, Valle di Cembra - Parcheggia e cammina… sui sentieri dell'Altopiano di Piné e della Valle di Cembra”: the detail has been highly improved, and in the back side there are many descriptions of the most important Cembran places, in Italian.
The map is still available free at the Tourist Board of the Piné Plateau and Cembra Valley, in Piazza Toniolli 2 in Cembra or in Via C. Battisti 106 in Baselga di Piné.
Very good is the hiking and ski mountaineering map # 075 published by Kompass, in scale 1:35,000, which covers the Piné Plateau, the Cembra Valley and the Mocheni Valley: it can be purchased in many bookshops and newsstands.
The back side of the map shows descriptions, in Italian and German language, of the most relevant places of the included zones.
It may be also useful to look at the detailed topographical maps, in scale 1:25,000, printed by Istituto Geografico Militare (the Italian military geographical institute, IGM). The most pertaining one is the sheet #21, quarter I, orientation S.W. (Cèmbra), but relevant are also the sheet #21, quarter III, orientation N.E. (Lavìs), the sheet #21, quarter II, orientation N.W. (Baselga di Pinè) and the sheet #21, quarter III, orientation S.E. (Trento); all these maps unfortunately have been issued in the sixties of the 20th century.
The IGM papers can be bought at the the IGM direct point of sale, in Viale F. Strozzi, 10 in Firenze, from the IGM e-shop, or purchased from one of the entitled retailers (for instance the Hoepli International Bookshop, in via Hoepli in Milan).
As some of the trails of the Cembra Valley are among the ones surveyed by Società degli Alpinisti Tridentini (Trentine Mountaineer Society, SAT), it's useful to consult SAT publications, for instance the Trentine trails register (in Italian).
Any possible omissions in mentioning publications related to the Cembran trails are obviously my own responsibility: in this case I thank anyone who will indicate such lacks to the e-mail 
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© 2005, Fabio Vassallo