FLORENCE. The Tuscany Region wants to build infrastructure with zero environmental impact along the 400 miles via Francigena, the ancient pilgrims' path, and this has produced a real master plan, approved in recent days by the regional initiative on the Councillor tourism, culture and commerce.
The transaction, if words have meaning, it is not simple as the Master Plan identifies parallel and sometimes intersecting with that walk, a path to use as few machines as a "by-pass". In all cases at least in some places zero impact you can really bring.
"For a long time - said the Councillor for Tourism Paul Cocchi - Tuscany Region has taken on cultural-tourism as a priority the development of a route from north to south across its territory, touching the medieval Tuscany, surrounded by a landscape of extraordinary beauty that has nothing to envy to the most famous Camino de Santiago. A route that can really, for beauty and ability to evoke, be taken as a paradigm of the new way to travel slow, making the journey - on foot, on horseback, by bike or by car - an inner journey, a journey of the spirit, either religious or secular, which enriches the story and personal experience. "
floor region are working for two months, provinces and municipalities to establish by September 30 yards in a comprehensive framework and actions needed for transfer to municipalities interested in funding for regional achievements. Three million will be used for the production of signage, street furniture, restoration and safety of the routes, equipment parking areas and points of information in the manner and the choice of the materials provided in the Master Plan, according to environmental and historical characteristics of different places of Tuscany.
"In terms of sustainable economic development - continued Cocchi - the Francigena has the potential to become a formidable asset for the tourism. In order to compete with the homologous Camino de Santiago, who sees through it each year hundreds of thousands of pilgrims, tourists, hikers, it is necessary that the path is well marked, from the great road to the hiking trail can be traveled safely, equipped with staging points, and host information and accommodation suitable for tourists and pilgrims slow. These measures will give a general uniformity to the path. " The working method adopted by the Region, will be brought from Tuscany, which is the parent of the interregional project "Via Francigena", even to other regions that are part of the project to build a ViaFrancigena Italian.
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