Cross-border Governance of Romanic Itineraries
ITINERA ROMANICA+ comes from the experience of the ITERR-COST, ACCESSIT and GRITACCESS projects. It promotes the Romanesque cultural heritage and cooperation area accessibility by combining routes connecting Romanesque sites with joint protection, promotion and enhancement actions. The project involves all five regions and identifies 13 areas of interest (2 in Tuscany, 5 in Sardinia, 2 in Corsica, 3 in Liguria and 1 in PACA); these rural areas have in common the presence of minor cultural sites with limited accessibility. The project partnership consists of 7 partners, both public and private. The general objective is to improve the capacity to manage and enhance the common heritage on a cross-border level by pursuing the following: 1. A coordination action at the institutional level, to lay down a joint plan that collects local experiences and needs and identifies good accessibility practices and management models; 2. Actions to improve the actual and virtual accessibility of the sites, which will lead to an integrated offer of 13 itineraries with a multi-language mobile application suitable for various types of users, and a set of pilot actions to enable accessibility for people with reduced mobility or disabilities; 3. An action of entertainment and awareness raising of the integrated offer in all areas, promoting the value of their cultural and natural resources, through the creation of 4 awareness-raising and information Laboratories in each area and artistic-cultural "Romanesque Days" events; 4. The cross-border extension of the Itinera Romanica model, an association founded in Sardinia following ITERR-COST, to manage the integrated offer of itineraries according to the joint model developed during the project.