Re-discovering the ancient pilgrimages between Carinthia and Friuli Venezia Giulia - The art of hiking
The FVG and Carinthia are crossed by ancient pilgrimage routes which lead to Santiago, Rome and Jerusalem. The importance of these itineraries has not yet been valorised, a connection between these locations is missing, along with a sustainable package tours and an adequate cross-border signage system. The project stems from the idea of enhancing the value of these routes and their varied natural and cultural heritage, preserving its attractiveness and uniqueness by creating tourist itineraries as an alternative to mass tourism solutions. _x000D_
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Objective of this project is to safeguard and enhance the value of the natural and cultural heritage by creating a network to connect these routes in order to provide a new type of sustainable cross-border tourism offer accessible to everyone, even to disabled tourists; this involves the creation of integrated actions, services and information, cross-border package tours, the setting up of reception rooms and to improve accessibility to tourist destinations and places of cultural interest situated along the routes. _x000D_
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Dissemination activities: PR activities, brochures, leaflets, two events: in St. Veit and Colloredo. Impact: include the reduction of the territorial asymmetry of tourist attraction, by means of the enhancement of slow tourism and theme-based tourism packages with a higher added value, economic growth with the number of tourists who visit it as well as the number of sites of natural and cultural interest which have been visited.