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Knowledge for the Enhancement between Memory and Contemporaneity: Pilgrim’s Old and New Routes in Historical Maps (15th-19th Centuries)
Full text linkThe text analyses the cartography produced between the late Middle Ages and the Unification of Italy (and the Carta d’Italia of the Military Survey Office): among the most important categories of documented sources for the history of viability and the area. The original maps (almost all hand-drawn) prevail, drawn for the ancient states or upper classes for the purpose of military or civil management, control and enhancement of the territory. Beyond the metrics and topographic contents, the utilisation of historical maps requires research in public and private land registries of Italy and other countries, which is not always easy. It furthermore requires a rational critical evaluation of the products and with this the necessary contextualisation of administrative and political-economic-social strategic practice to which they belong. The text addresses historical cartography (general maps of various scales and road types) used for the study of viability, including the numerous pilgrim routes that cross Tuscany from north to south, passing through the Appennino, through the crossings of Lunigiana and Valtiberina. The official Tuscan products, as well as those of its sub-regions and communities (whose road network is highlighted) stand out among others, and also singular street routes, particularly those drawn during the second half of the 18th century and the first decades of the 20th century when the geometric cadastre was completed. Almost all of them were needed to be able to rule the territory and often to plan and carry out important public work as well as modernisation of communication infrastructure
Materadio, a Radio Airing in View of Matera European Capital of Culture 2019
Full text linkRadio continues to be capable of showing a good level of an audience in comparison to TV and the new media that arose in the Internet era. In Italy, the State Broadcasting RAI (Italian Radio Television) maintains its traditional role of being an official voice, and a credible place of quality shows, especially in the cultural sector. Private free/democratic radio stations are traditionally oriented to the easy listening audience or in supporting selected political parties. RAI runs three traditional radio stations, of which Radio 3 is the cultural channel. Its palimpsest is dedicated to any aspect of culture and highbrow music. In 2011, the chief of the committee for the future candidate European Capital of Culture (ECoC) Matera had the intuition to propose a radio transmission regarding the city of Matera to the Director of Radio 3. Thus, Materadio – la festa di Radio 3 was born, being the very first radio airing specifically dedicated to a Southern Italian city. This paper reports the story of Materadio from its birth until today and its role in supporting the candidacy of Matera in ECoC versus other Italian competing cities. It also reports the ongoing organization in view of Matera 2019. Direct observations during the two preceding years and face-to-face interviews to actors involved in organizing Matera 2019 have been made. Results show how the discreet and indirect sustain of Materadio to the ECoC candidacy has been important in two directions. Outwards, because it allowed important contacts with an audience very keen to cultural events. Inwards, because the airing of Materadio from the very place of Matera caused the popular involvement, an integral part of the Matera 2019 strategy
City Walls as Historic Urban Landscape: a Case study on Participatory Education
Full text linkThe concept of Historic Urban Landscape, which now guides the conservation and promotion of numerous heritage sites across the world, is based on the recognition of the complexity of the urban environment, seen as a dynamic system of cultural and natural features. This paper aims at presenting an ongoing reassessment of the meaning of a historic artefact in the city of Bergamo, Italy, which is part of a broader system of defence built by the Venetian Republic between the 15th and 17th centuries. Among the many related initiatives, one was launched by the University of Bergamo and involved nearly a hundred primary school children in a series of multidisciplinary workshops. Children worked to produce a guidebook and a short animated film aimed at reconstructing the meanings and the values embodied by the Venetian Walls, an enduring cultural icon surrounding the medieval upper town. This project is triggering both downscaling and upscaling dynamics in the regeneration process of this historic urban infrastructure. It also contributes to the creation and sharing of new meanings around this heritage, which are strongly related to its value for the citizenship as well as for the visitors
The International Feast of the History. A Concrete Project for the Dissemination of History and Heritage
Full text linkIn this paper, I present a series of educational projects, new challenges and perspectives that the International Centre of methodology for teaching history and heritage (DiPaSt) of the University of Bologna has undertaken in the last years regarding the teaching of history and heritage education. I would like to start by asking a question: can historical and cultural heritage act as a tool to compensate for the gaps, shortcomings, and the sense of loss, which afflict and define the society in which we live? In addition, this in turn leads us to another question: which tools and which methodologies can we use? Every time when a professor starts a new course of Medieval History or Methodologies of teaching history, most of the students tell him that they do not like history. Therefore, the professor usually spends half of the time of the course explaining why it is important to study and to teach history. Because history is not the merely textbook, or a sequence of dates, wars, battles. Nevertheless, history is us, we are history. For these reasons, fifteen years ago, a group of professors of the University of Bologna got together and created the “Feast of the history”. Nowadays, the Feast is widely recognized as one of the most important events in Europe
When History Repeats: Heritage Regeneration and Emergent Authenticity in the Marche’s Peripheral Areas
Full text linkThis article looks at the way in which historical re-enactments contribute both to the development of a peculiar tourism experience and to the regeneration of the historical and cultural heritage, adding up value and a certain “sense of place” to areas normally considered “marginal” from a variety of points of view. This will be achieved through the analysis of two events — the historical Palio “Giuoco dell’Oca” in Cagli and the Battle of the Nations in Sentinum (now Sassoferrato) — and specifically of the role that such “staged” events play in the regeneration of cultural heritage as well as of their role in creating collective identities. Moreover, it will be discussed whether such happenings can help develop a kind of cultural tourism based on the fruition of authentic experiences. The data were collected through ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2016 in the scope of a wider research project on the “National Strategy for Inner Areas in Italy”, a development strategy launched in 2012 by the Italian Minister for Territorial Cohesion at the time, aimed at creating tools likely to foster a series of basic services access improvements in the Italian peripheral areas
Inbound Tourists in Italy: An Analysis of Individual Satisfaction in the Main Italian Destinations
Full text linkThe present work aims at bringing about an empirical analysis of the inbound tourism market in Italy, from the perspective of the individual tourist. We analyze more than a million satisfaction judgments, retrieved from the extensive survey by the Central Bank of Italy, spanning the period 1997-2013, focusing on the visitors’ socio-demographic and trip-related characteristics Moreover, following the Multi-Attribute Level approach and the Importance-Performance interpretative framework, satisfaction is proposed as a measure to evaluate tourism areas’ attractiveness and the performances of destinations’ assets
The Linguistic and Cultural Interpretation of Dissonant Heritage: the ATRIUM Cultural Route
Full text linkThe European Cultural Route ATRIUM (Architecture of Totalitarian Regimes in Europe's Urban Memory) deals with dissonant heritage, referring to a contrast of meaning and value systems between the past and the present. The route will be examined within the framework of a set of communication strategies for cultural routes. This short paper will look at some linguistic aspects related to the ATRIUM route and its ‘dissonant heritage’. By analysing some examples of existing promotional approaches related to this particular heritage, it will outline some considerations for a communicative strategy appropriate to the overall narrative structure of the ATRIUM cultural route, with special regard to a bottom-up constructivist approach
From the Roman and then Longobard via Cassiola to the Piccola Cassia Tourist Project
No full textA coordinated set of initiatives of cultural value also useful for the acquaintance and tourism development of the territory must have as solid basis the study of the ancient testimonies of the path of travelers and pilgrims. Cassiola road was a Roman road, continuing north of Cassia road, disused during the occupation of the Longobards of West Emilia, and reopened by the longobard king Astolfo in the middle of the eighth century. Today the different stretches of Cassiola or Piccola Cassia road are still accessible on foot, on horseback, by bicycle, and touch places of high historical, architectural, artistic and cultural value. The study of many other medieval roads deriving from Roman ones has verified the persistence of the use of the road name itself (such as Fiamenga da Flaminia or Cassiola da Cassia) or the use in medieval documents of the term strata, which always indicates a road of importance not only local but at least regional or trans-regional. Via Cassiola can be found in medieval documents from this name, in the vulgar Latin transformed into Cassola, or in the historical cartography of Modern age with the name of Cassola or Cassoletta. Its path to the plain between Modena and Bologna covered important Benedictine abbeys rich in relics, such as S. Silvestro di Nonantola and S. Maria in Strada, and medieval hospitals for pilgrims, such as S. Bartholomew of Spilamberto. On the hills, the road touched the abbey of St. Lucia of Roffeno and wandered the Apennine to the passage of the Arcane Cross, where a great cross was driving the passengers. On the way to the pass, pilgrims could stay at the church of S. Colombano in Fanano, while in the valley of the Ospitale torrent one could find refuge in the hospice of S. Giacomo of Val di Lamola, both still existing. In Tuscany, the road allowed to arrive in Pistoia, the end of the Roman Cassia road, where pilgrims could adore the relics of saint James in the cathedral, or reach the Garfagnana and Lucca, where the Holy Face attracts the devotion of thousands of faithful men and women from all over Europe
Pilgrimages of Princes in the 15th Century – Two Holy Land journeys of German Princes via Rome. A Distinction to the Lower Nobility Class Journeys
Full text linkThroughout that work the differences and similarities of princely and non-princely, but noble, pilgrimages in the German-speaking part of the late medieval times should be outlined with the aid of two concrete examples. The main focus will be on the distinction of princely pilgrimages to pilgrimages of the lower nobility class. In this connection especially the fact is important that a more precise distinction between the two groups of persons rarely takes place in the widely-used German-speaking literature and both groups are used equivalent. To illustrate a more precise distinction throughout the analysis with the two chosen princely pilgrimages there will be used direct quotes at suitable text passages to enable a singularization of the similarities as well as the differences to the pilgrimages of the lower nobility class. Concrete examples constitute the pilgrimages of the dukes Eberhard I. of Württemberg and Bogislaw X. of Pomerania. As the analysis progresses there will be highlighted that princely pilgrimages differ in the intention, the effort of planning as well as the enactment in comparison to non-princely pilgrimages. For future scientific investigations with late medieval pilgrimages to Jerusalem and Rome therefore it will be necessary to defer to a concrete distinction between princely pilgrimages and non-princely, but noble, pilgrimages.
Study and Monitoring of Itinerant Tourism along the Francigena Route, by Camera Trapping System
Full text linkTourism along the Via Francigena is a growing phenomenon. It is important to develop a direct survey of path’s users (pilgrims, tourists travel, day-trippers, etc.) able to define user’s profiles, phenomenon extent, and its evolution over time. This in order to develop possible actions to promote the socio-economic impact on rural areas concerned. With this research, we propose the creation of a monitoring network based on camera trapping system to estimate the number of tourists in a simple and expeditious way. Recently, the camera trapping, as well as the faunal field, is finding wide use even in population surveys. An innovative application field is the one in the tourist sector, becoming the basis of statistical and planning analysis. To carry out a survey of the pilgrims/tourists, we applied this type of sampling method. It is an interesting method since it allows to obtain data about type and number of users. The application of camera trapping along the Francigena allows to obtain several information about users profiles, such as sex, age, average lengths of pilgrimages, type of journey (by foot, by horseback or by bike), in a continuous time period distributed in the tourist months of the 2014