Heritage
The most prominent ancient civilizations existed in the Adriatic and Ionian regions, leaving behind a great cultural and natural legacy. The PRONACUL initiative aims to promote sustainable tourism in the Adriatic and Ionian regions via the preservation of natural and cultural assets. To accomplish this purpose, the project developed, implemented and promoted a common methodology for natural and cultural resource management based on a participatory approach to stakeholders.
Let us together explore some of the most beautiful natural and cultural routes on the PRONACUL Project.
Traveling
Its rich, natural and cultural heritage, as diverse as its individual countries and, without a doubt, vital to both social and economic development, makes the Adriatic and Ionian region one of the most attractive tourism destinations in the world!
Cultural and natural routes of the Adriatic-Ionian region combine learning, recreation, and connection to place, enabling visitors to immerse themselves in the local culture while also learning more about its past and present.
Historic buildings, archaeological sites, museums, monuments, artworks, literary and musical works, endless ridges, “alpine” landscapes and meadows, lush green forests, shady gorges and rivers with crystal clear waters will be promoted through the PRONACUL project!
PRONACUL's Transnational Route
The most prominent ancient civilizations existed in the Adriatic and Ionian regions, leaving behind a great cultural and natural legacy. The PRONACUL initiative aims to promote sustainable tourism in the Adriatic and Ionian regions via the preservation of natural and cultural assets. To accomplish this purpose, the project developed, implemented and promoted a common methodology for natural and cultural resource management based on a participatory approach to stakeholders.
Its rich, natural and cultural heritage, as diverse as its individual countries and, without a doubt, vital to both social and economic development, makes the Adriatic and Ionian region one of the most attractive tourism destinations in the world. Cultural and natural routes of the Adriatic-Ionian region combine learning, recreation, and connection to place, enabling visitors to immerse themselves in the local culture while also learning more about its past and present. Historic buildings, archaeological sites, museums, monuments, artworks, literary and musical works, endless ridges, “alpine” landscapes and meadows, lush green forests, shady gorges and rivers with crystal clear waters will be promoted through the PRONACUL project.
Experiences from the pilot areas help formulating proposals for inclusion of a common methodology, that connects all partner destinations in a transnational route, which could be certified by the European Institute of Cultural Routes, with a possibility to be placed under “Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe”. PRONACUL’s Virtual Chamber acts as a consulting service for relevant stakeholders in mountanious areas who would like to apply the common methodology for managing natural and cultural heritage in practice and to connect with other protected areas in Adriatic – Ionian area. Such transnational activities set preconditions for the development of a proposal for gaining a Transnational Route’s certificate in the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe to base the level on the application of a practical destination management process.
Results of pilot area implementation are used to show the effectiveness of the common methodology to adopt and implement new policies in practice. It also serves as a best practice for the development of other thematic routes, thus enabling transfer to other Adrion areas and interest has already shown, that also wider. With an intention of improving policies, we want to influence not only to the key stakeholders but also to the policy makers by disseminating results, outputs and deliverables in the form of recommendations for concrete local, regional, national and transnational strategy documents to ensure further development on the field of valorisation and preservation of natural and cultural heritage.
The spine of the route is a historical view of natural and cultural assets, which has a direct destination management impact on all areas of labour and life of the area’s population with the purpose of transfer to other organisations, regions and countries outside of the current partnership. PRONACUL’s partners signed a letter of commitment to recommend the application of project results to other areas.