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WP4 Urban Programming

Output 4.7 Integrated Strategic Territorial/Urban Agenda of the

Pescasseroli-Candela Tratturo area- Provincia di Foggia

ERDF PP6

Version 01

Prepared by:

Provincia di Foggia

www.territorio.provincia.foggia.it

Reviewed by:

STATUS Content Management

URBASOFIA

www.urbasofia.eu

Urban Planning Institute

of the Republic of Slovenia

www.uirs.si

http://www.urbasofia.eu/

http://www.uirs.si/

Workpackage 4 Urban Programming

Activity 4.2 Definition of planning scenarios:

prioritization design of urban strategic agenda

D4.7 Integrated Strategic Territorial/Urban Agenda in

the Pescasseroli-Candela Tratturo area

ERDF PP6 – Provincia of Foggia (IT)

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Project number: SEE/D/0297/4.1/X

Project acronym: STATUS

Project title: Strategic Territorial Agendas for "Small and Middle-Sized Towns" Urban Systems

Instrument: INTERREG IV B SEE

Call identifier: South East Europe Call D

Activity code:

Start date of Project: 2012-12-01

Duration: 24 month

Deliverable reference number and title (as in Annex 1): D4.7 Integrated Strategic

Territorial/Urban Agenda in

Pescasseroli-Candela Tratturo area

Due date of deliverable (as in Annex 1): 2014-11-30

Actual submission date: see “History” Table below

Revision:

Organisation name of lead contractor for this deliverable:

Municipality of Kavala

Project co-funded by the European Commission within the INTERREG IVB

South East Europe Programme (2007-2013)

Dissemination Level

PU Public PU

PP Restricted to other programme participants (including the

Commission Services)

RE Restricted to a group specified by the consortium

CO Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the

Commission Services)

Output 4.7 Integrated Strategic Territorial/Urban Agenda of the Pescasseroli-Candela Tratturo area

ERDF PP6 - Province of Foggia(IT)

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Title:

D 4.7 - Integrated Strategic Territorial/Urban Agenda in Pescasseroli-Candela Tratturo area


Author(s)/Organisation(s):


Working Group:

WP4

References:

STATUS Final Application Form (INTRA-5108827)

STATUS Project and financial management handbook

Short Description:

Output 4.2, 4.5 and 4.6 are going to be combined and presented as the final Strategic Territorial / Agenda.

Content manager coordinates. Scientific and technological partners provide methodologies and techniques, tools

necessary to facilitate the exchange of ideas, knowledge and expertise in the activated participatory planning process

leading to the final Agendas design.

Keywords:

Strategic territorial agenda, strategy, workshops, participatory tool, geoblog, stakeholders, working groups, solutions,

problems

History:

Version Author(s) Status Comment Date

00 Barbara Music (UIRS) 1. Draft Template of the report 16/09/2014

01 Giovanna Caratù and

Adele Celino

1. Draft Draft of the report 17/10/2014

Review:

Version Reviewer Comment Date

01

Sabina Dimitriu (As. CM)

Pietro Elisei (CM)

Review of Report Template 2014

xx/xx/2014

01 Barbara Mušič (UIRS) Review of the v01 of the report 17/11/2014



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Table of Contents

Table of Contents................................................................................................................................... 4

Table of Figures ..................................................................................................................................... 5

Abbreviation List ................................................................................................................................... 5

1 The importance/purpose of the Strategic Territorial Agenda (STA) ....................................... 6

2 Scope and vision of the STA 2030 ................................................................................................ 6

3 The process leading to design of the STA in Provincia of Foggia area ..................................... 7

4 Goals and projects of the STA .................................................................................................... 15

5 Implementation of the STA ........................................................................................................ 19

6 Project Fiches: Priority projects corresponding to each goal/objective of the STA .............. 23

7 The Poster Plan ............................................................................................................................ 34

8 Conclusions .................................................................................................................................. 37

9 References .................................................................................................................................... 37

10 Annexes......................................................................................................................................... 37



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Table of Figures

Tables

Table 1: List of prioritized projects ....................................................................................................... 18

Table 2: STA´s Action Plan of Provincia of Foggia area ...................................................................... 19

Table 3: STA´s Action Plan of Provincia of Foggia area in a timeline ................................................. 21

Table 4: Risk assessment ....................................................................................................................... 23

Table 5: Monitoring and evaluation framework of the STA .................. Error! Bookmark not defined.

Figures

Figure 1: The process of designing STA (source: own design) .............................................................. 7

Figure 2: Timeline of the process of STA design (source: own design) ............................................... 10

Figure 3: Timeline of the process of STA design .................................................................................. 12

Abbreviation List

CKP - cities knowledge platform

STA - Strategic Territorial Agenda

TP – Territorial Partner

SEE – South Eastern Europe

UC – Urban Centers

TTF – Territorial Task Forces



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1 The importance/purpose of the Strategic

Territorial Agenda (STA)

The Tratturi System is an interregional network of pathways along which the historical

phenomenon of transhumance took place. Today such paths have a strategic value from

territorial and historical point of view. The theme of their recovery and enhancement is not a

new theme in the Agenda of local institutions, association, agricultural actors, and of local

community. Anyway, at the moment, there is not a strong strategy that can support a real

development of the area based on the valorization of the extensive network of tratturi.

In the STATUS project, the Provincia of Foggia has proposed the goal of protection and

enhancement of the tratturo Pescasseroli-Candela as a pilot case. The area of the Pescasseroli-

Candela tratturo covers around 450 hectares, as main way, and 2.500 hectares, as annexed

area. It is a poor and marginal area with subsistence economy grounded essentially on

traditional farming. Income per capita are the lowest among European countries and in

particular we are highlighting the Municipality of Anzano di Puglia with an income per capita

of 4.265 euro per year. On the other hand, the territory is rich both, natural and landscape

resources of high value and in widespread cultural resources. There is also a good presence of

associations whose main mission is the dissemination of this natural and cultural heritage.

The problem is the lack of: 1) entrepreneurial initiatives that help to develop such a capital; 2)

coordination and planning actions that could guide the activities towards the preservation and

development of the tratturo; 3) consistent use of the areas; 4) strategies and projects aimed at

enhancing the area.

Many local projects have been proposed in this direction for their funding but only few of

them were realized.

The Province of Foggia has proposed to design the STA for the area of the Tratturo

Pescasseroli-Candela in order to plan a coordinated and collaborative strategy that really can

help to implement (or to support) actions for the protection and enhancement of the area and

that can be represented, in the future, as a good practice, as an interesting and effective

example/way to follow, in similar conditions, for other tratturo of the “System”.

Finally, with reference to the topic of "tratturo", the local actors (institutions, associations,

entrepreneurs, etc.) seem to be "structurally isolated". Such "isolation" is probably a

contributing factor to the lack of strategies and projects shared and/or developed in

cooperation/collaboration and it may, in part, be overcome with the participatory process

activated in support of the design process of the STA.

2 Scope and vision of the STA 2030

The Strategic Agenda faces two types of territorial issues:

process issues such as: lack of coordination, activation of an effective participation

process, selection of key stakeholders;



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content issues such as: lack of an overall strategic improvement project, promotion of

actions oriented to the operational plan (POI) implementation, coordination of

programs and actions, selection of planning or programs instruments able to support

the strategic agenda

The goals of STA are essentially: procedural goals and content goals.

From the procedural point of view, the ambition of the Agenda is to activate different

networks of action with variable geometry that can also work independently from each other

in order to identify implementation strategies for the recovery and valorization of the area and

to discover implementation tools. At the beginning of the STATUS process, the Provincia of

Foggia has recognized some stakeholders (output 3.1), but the STA was designed taking into

account that the partnership and networks are adaptive and evolving, depending on

occurrences. In structuring and designing the STATUS process, the key idea was that the STA

could contribute to create new action networks in an area poor of opportunities to collaborate.

In designing the strategic vision of the tratturo area, stakeholders have to recognize their role,

their resources and their potential for the enhancement of the tratturo.

From the content point of view , starting from the existing planning tools and mainly from the

POI (Integrated Operational Plans "Renovation and development of Pescasseroli-Candela)

(see output 3.5), the STA 2030 of the area of tratturo Pescasseroli-Candela is built on a

strategic vision (and a challenge) oriented to make tratturo’s areas:

identifiable/visible: to ensure its formal recognizability as a territorial object;

usable: to promote it as an attractive area;

continuous: to safeguard unity of its different dimensions from cultural, ecological and

physical point of view.

3 The process leading to design of the STA in the

area of the Provincia of Foggia

The process of designing the Strategic Territorial Agenda follows three mayor steps:

Figure 1: The process of designing STA

(source: UIRS design)

The STATUS workshops were organized as a sequence of events in a continuous, evolving,

and action-oriented process. These workshops have been considered as a great opportunity to

support the generation of a Strategic Territorial Agenda (STA) which aims to implement the

Provincial Operational Plan (POI) and, therefore, to share and verify action strategies

Identification of problems

Finding solutions

Designing the STA



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proposed in the POI. In considering such action strategies as open objects, the expectations of

the workshops were:

revision of proposed action strategies or searching for new ones;

identifying of priority in actions;

discovering implementation tools.The workshop have been organized based on the original

STATUS workshop methodology provided for the WP4, with a few modifications.

The first public workshop was organized as a workshop of coordination between the

institutions involved (region, municipalities and representative of the union or association of

farmers). The main goal was to generate the appropriate conditions to produce the snowball

effect. It was held in the Provincia di Foggia and there have been 18 participants, all identified

by the Province. Such first workshop was organized to achieve the following objectives:

to attract and address the interest of the actors on the Tratturo issues;

to identify conceptual axis of the Strategic Agenda;

to identify problems for the Tratturo Governance (set of governance problems to face

within (and with) the Agenda and the new key stakeholders);

to discuss on problems in managing territorial agenda and territorial center;

to discover ways to integrate institutional/administrative policies and sectoral

issues/actions.

The first workshop, as a coordination workshop, was spent on discussing about the

governance issues. Consequently all the participants have worked in a single group created for

the conceptual axis: “Governance and Stakeholders”. During the meeting, participants were

able to identify the other conceptual axes and the other working groups (“Accessibility”,

“Landscape”, “Property”) and to suggest a list of new participants.

In the days following the first workshop, participants were involved in the organization of the

second workshop. In total, 38 persons have attended the workshop.

Taking into consideration the outputs produced during the first workshop by the Working

Group 1 (“Governance and Stakeholders”), the objectives of the second workshop have been:

to identify problems/issues for the conceptual axes recognized by participants;

to propose a number of solutions for the problems identified;

to provide a prioritization of the projects; to identify the financial instruments.

The workshop has lasted four days during which a number of participants have been

recognized as a reliable group of territorial actors capable and willing to sustain a long-term

dialogue with the institutions (region, province and municipalities). On the first day, in a

plenary session, sharing their significant practical experience in planning and public policy,

the key actors (participants in the first workshop) presented, in turn:

1. critical issues in terms of: accessibility (not just physical), landscape (in general terms),

properties (management of -), governance;

2. 2014-2020 programming and the programming at regional, provincial and local levels;

3. projects that are considered interesting, already implemented and/or being implemented,

and which have had a positive impact (or perhaps even negative) on the area;

4. remarks on dialogue, cooperation between actors (institutional and otherwise) and

community participation.



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The work conducted during the second, third and fourth workshop days has taken place

within workgroups divided on major themes (Governance and Stakeholders”, “Accessibility”,

“Landscape”, and “Property”) and focused on:

discussion on the findings of the first WS and the first day;

summary of the critical issues;

possible solutions;

definition of priorities;

evidence of the possible positive or negative externalities (conflicts, difficulties, etc.);

opportunities for funding.

In addition to the problems raised in the first workshop in the Province of Foggia (19

Novembre 2013), several other aspects/issues/problems have been discussed in the plenary

session and separate workgroups throughout the 4 days of the event. In this way, the new

participants had the opportunity to think beforehand and complete the list with additional

remarks and problems,

During and after, the days of the second workshop, a draft of the agenda (a sort of report of

the discussions – see Annex 5) has been regarded as a "working in progress" (an "open

content") and sent to the mailing list in order to show all participants the results achieved in

each of the four days of the workshop. In addition, all participants were involved in engaging

other stakeholders and encouraged to share documents and work on them.

The third workshop, hosted by the Province of Foggia, was aimed to the design, presenta and

discuss on the draft of the Strategic Territorial Agenda and to the elicitation of feedback on

the ideas proposed in the last 2 workshops.

The main topics of discussion during the 3th workshop were:

the draft of the strategic agenda;

the public participation in the processes of Agenda´s adoption (also addressed to civil

society);

the forms of institutionalization of the future common endeavors.

In particular the discussion focused on the way to assure, in the actions of the Agenda,

sustainable (in financial and commitment terms) and long-term involvement of the

stakeholders. The meeting highlighted the difficulties and challenges but the participants have

shared with enthusiasm the starting work program (6 months) (including the public

presentation of the Strategic Agenda).

During the day of the workshop, participants discussed about such a vision and agreed on the

opportunity to work on the priority actions (in the short time, 6 months), that are considered

the interventions aimed at increasing both the recognizability of the tratturo and the

commitment of participants and of the whole community.

In the days that proceeded and those that followed the day of the third workshop, some

participants worked on some actions considered as priorities.

3.1 Timeline of the overall process of the STA design



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Figure 2: Timeline of the process of STA design

(source: UIRS design)

The 1st local workshop was held in the Provincia di Foggia, on the November 19th, 2013.

The 2nd local workshop was held in the Municipality of Anzano di Puglia, (one of the five

municipalities of the tratturo area) on February, 25 2014 and in the Province of Foggia,

spanning 3 more days (March 11-18-25).

The 3th local workshop was held in the Province of Foggia on July 7th, 2014.

3.2 Operational Analysis

Qualitative analyses (see outline 3.1.) and SWOT analysis (see outline 3.2) are used as an

opportunity to achieve knowledge of the state of the art of local urban issues.

In particular the current planning tools were the input to start discussions: existing plans,

policies, strategies, and politics had a big influence on designing the STA and on discuss how

projects and actions can be realized.

The only policy that really was carried out in the past, was the protection policy: at the

national level, the existing legal framework sees the tratturi as an archaeological and

landscape restriction; at the regional level , the establishment of the Regional Park of Tratturi

(R.L. 29/2003) did not define policies and strategies to approach them.

Recently, a regional law assigns to Apulia Region the task to form an "framework structure”

(which is not yet drafted) for the whole network of the tratturi, in order to avoid a fragmented

approach of such territorial resource.

In the Apulia Region, the linear protected area of the tratturi is a widespread network that is

constituted above all by public areas. They can be the meaningful places where to experiment

and test the strategies and actions of regional and provincial territorial plans. In particular

every track of tratturi can have its own role in different strategic territorial visions proposed

by the regional plan (Piano Territoriale di Coordinamento Provinciale-PPTR) which was

adopted in 2010 (the vision of the "Ecological Network territorial project", the "Low Mobility

territorial project" and the "City-Country agreement territorial project").

The provincial territorial plan (Piano Territoriale di Coordinamento Provinciale - PTCP),

approved in 2009, also sees the network of tratturi as a green path network and as historical

landscapes to protect and to improve.

2013WP3 Inception

November 2013

WP4 Workshop 1

February-March 2014

WP4 Workshop 2

July 2014WP4 Workshop 3

WP5 UTC + UC



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Both the plans, PPTR and PTCP, give a special attention to the Tratturo Pescasseroli-Candela

The first one identifies it as an experimental project where testing proposed strategies; the

other one establishes an executive plan (Piano Operativo Integrato - POI) as a pilot project.

in particular, the starting point of the Agenda discussion were the existing planning tools and,

mainly, the POI (Integrated Operational Plans "Renovation and development of Pescasseroli-

Candela) (see output 3.5).

3.3 Territorial programming and Territorial Task Forces (TTF)

The STATUS workshop was the first opportunity where the involved participants could

discuss, all together, the future of the tratturo area. However, at the beginning, the Province of

Foggia was able to involve only institutional actors (Region and Municipalities) and the

representatives of unions or of associations of farmers (Coldiretti, Confagricoltura, etc.). So,

even if the first workshop was a great opportunity to discuss on procedural/governance issues,

there has been an over representation of institutional actors.

There are many other stakeholders (mainly at local level) really important in order to develop

a strategic agenda, however the Province of Foggia had some difficulties to recognize them

and, besides, to identify the conceptual axes that can support/orient the discussion.

For such a reason, in the first workshop, we chose to work with only one group ("Governance

and Stakeholders") and move discussion in workgroups at the second workshop. In the first

workshop, participants were able to identify, together with the Province of Foggia, the other

conceptual axes and the other working groups; in such way they actively attended in the

organization of the second workshop and they suggested a list of new stakeholders to involve

in the next workshop (associations and others organized stakeholders, experts, schools, etc).

The comparison between the initial stakeholders list and the one following to Workshop n.1

has revealed some changes in composition of the working groups, as well as, in the total

number of attendees.

In the first workshop, the actors, the Province of Foggia has been able to engage the

institutional actors (Region and Municipalities) and the representative of the trade union or an

association of farmers.

Other stakeholders (mainly at local level), really important in order to develop a strategic

agenda, were engaged in the second workshop; they were involved by the same participants.

The number of representatives of associations and activists in the area increased significantly.

The presence of the institutions has been almost constant (although represented by less

attendance, as in the case of the Apulia Region).

Almost all participants to the second workshop (consisting in the most interested and

qualified territorial actors) have been invested in keeping the task force alive and functioning

beyond the project deadline (perhaps in a form of consortium). In all days of the second

workshop, the participants discussed the shape of the Task Force; in order to ensure an

adequate commitment and involvement, they have proposed various institutionalized forms.

A lower presence of civil society is due to the large scale of the territorial issues that is able to

attract, more easily, institution or private sectors.

Mailing list, telephone callings and word of mouth were used in order to organize the

workshops. All the participants have been involved in organizing the workshops and they

have been engaged in engaging other stakeholders.



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After each day of workshops, participants have been provided with a summary of the

discussion, a document considered as "working in progress " (a kind of " open content "). In

addition, they were asked to contribute with more input. They were encouraged to share

documents and to working on them.

Figure 3: Timeline of the process of STA design

Due to the spatial scale of the proposed interventions, the problems and solutions have been

difficult to represent on the map or on geoblog.

The key focus of the the 1st and the 2nd workshop were in term of identified problems and

proposed solutions, the followings:

a. Collaboration at different levels

Identified problem: There is a lack of coordination and planning oriented to the

preservation and development of the tratturo and a comprehensive and coherent strategy

to make the individual actions of local actors efficient

Proposed solutions:

Phase 01

Phase 02

stakeholders

Phase 03

stakeholders

Phase 04

stakeholders



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• The vision of the tratturo of Pescasseroli-Candela must be introduced in a system

vision, at the regional, interregional, and transactional levels;

• A consortium and a “control booth”, for the functions of coordination

• Thematic groups could be set up.

b. Funding and programming

Identified problem: The current funding and programming do not consider the tratturo as

common goods to be improved and do not allocate financial resources for activities in

that area. There is difficulty in identifying the tools that allow you to work in a more

coordinated way.

Proposed solutions

• It is necessary to prepare a document proposing the tratturo Pescasseroli-Candela as a

priority and to bring to the negotiating table to the next programming 2014-2020.

c. Recognizability

Identified problem: Even if the tratturo is a good of inestimable value, it is not always

visible by the local community that seems to be indifferent to the issues of its protection

and valorization.

Proposed solutions

• The tratturo has to be clearly identified in order to enhance the community ability to

recognize it.

• Installations by land art along the Pescasseroli-Candela track may contribute to focus

on the most significant places and make the area of tratturo an open-air museum

• Promotional events could contribute to focus on the protection and valorization issues

• Educational programs should be based on active citizenship and on the ability of

community to maintain the territory.

d. Physical accessibility

Identified problems: Not all the tratturo is practicable because of the several interruptions

along the route. It lacks a continuous maintenance of the area and there is often

abandoned waste.

Proposed solutions

• Some interventions are necessary for the physical protection of the territory, including

an appropriate system management and maintenance

• The local nature and culture must be promoted by trained guides

• Everyone should have the opportunity to walk along the tratturo, perhaps using new

technologies

• The farmers "concessions" must be sustainable and must be controlled to achieve the

planned goals.

• The slow mobility has to be organized: the tratturos are natural equestrian road and

they can become cycling routes, hiking routes and for people with disabilities.

• The critical and the potential issues of tratturo, proposed as a path, must be shown

going through the tratturo; only in such a way cycling routes and hiking routes could

be organized.

• Actions are needed to ensure both the cleaning of micro landfills that now exist along

the path, and safety

• The tratturo must have the access gates to the park; if one, it could be in the middle of

the track.



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AccessibilityGovernance

and stakeholders

Landascape Property

e. Negative impacts on the environment and landscape

Identified problems The path along the tratturo is fragmented and there are many human

activities that have had, and still have, a negative impact on the environment and the

landscape. Not always the political and administrative choices have also been oriented to

the safeguard of the tratturo. Farmers have often occupied the central part of the tratturo,

have left the pasture and have chosen crops (or monocultures) that are not compatible

with measures to protect the tratturo.

Proposed solutions

• The maintenance of tratturo and its areas pertaining must be organized to ensure the

physical security of the tratturo.

• Shares of landscape protection and of maintenance of the areas of the tratturo

• Interventions of recovery/mitigation can reduce the visual impact of industrial areas.

• In order to structure an integrated tourist offer, local guides must be trained and

guided tours should be organized on the territory.

f. Instability of soil

Identified problems:_ Instability of soil

Proposed solutions

• Engineering projects to counteract natural hydro-geomorphological hazards

g. Property

Identified problems: Successful actions have to deal with the complexity of the different

administrative use and ownership. In addition to agricultural soils there is also an

urbanized part and a part that still preserves its naturalness

Proposed solutions

• The opportunities offered by regional park, DRP, European funds and by the NOP

must be exploited.

• In concession areas, current agricultural practices must be oriented towards the

protection and preservation of the landscape.

In accordance with the results of the first workshop, the working groups were the following:

Governance and stakeholders

Landscape (natural and anthropic-man made)

Accessibility (not only physical)

Property systems management (public, private and granted)



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Figure 4: working group

(source: the Provincia of Foggia design)

The topics of discussion for each working group have been the following:

1. Working Group 1 – Governance and Stakeholders.

Collaboration at different levels: connection of the tratturo must to infrastructures at

regional, interregional and international level (Complete the sentence.)

Function of coordination: a consortium and a public-private management group as

tools to both participate to the negotiating tables and to have direct access to

European funding

Funding and programming: negotiating document, that proposes, to the next

programming 2014-2020, the tratturo Pescasseroli-Candela as a priority

2. Working Group 2 – Accessibility.

Recognizability: Appropriate signs to increase its fruition and to focus on the most

significant places

Enhancement of the community ability to recognize it: promotional events in order to

focus on the protection and valorization issues

Educational programs: active citizenship and ability of community to maintain the

territory

Physical protection of the territory: appropriate system management and maintenance,

trained guides, farmers’ "concessions" more sustainable, cleaning of micro landfills

Slow mobility: a different organization, the use of new technologies, access gates to

the park,

3. Working Group 3 – Landscape.

Maintenance of tratturo: native plants along the border, tree-lined avenues of access

to the cities, wildflower

Interventions of recovery / mitigation: reduction of visual impact of industrial areas,

integrated tourist offer

Instability of soil: engineering projects to counteract natural hydro-geomorphologic

hazards

4. Working Group 4 – Property.

agricultural practices: practices for the protection and preservation of the landscape,

access to the benefits of the RDP

incentives to change: access to the benefits of the RDP, multiple lines of financing.

4 Goals and projects of the STA

In the past, the routes of transhumance have forged the territory, namely the territory was

transformed in function of the pastoral activity but today they have lost their original function.

The Pescasseroli-Candela tratturo is, and remains, a path but it has other recognizable

features; these are the features of: terrestrial ecological corridor, natural course (on foot, on

horseback, by bicycle and for different types of users), open-air museum. Therefore, the



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possible interventions on the area: on the one hand should bring the tratturo to its original

appearance (or at least keep it), giving him again its identity characteristics and, above all, his

spatial view; on the other hand they should propose the usability of tratturo according to the

new orientations and needs of the community.

In order to assure such new functions/features, preserving the original appearance of the

tratturo, the Agenda aims the following objectives:

creation the path (or paths for sustainable mobility) and, at the same time, the "open air

museum" (to guarantee the preservation of historical memory) and a contribution to the

network of ecological corridors;

ensure the safety of the tratturo and its maintenance (also through incentives to dealers, or

the establishment of figures as that of guardian of the sheep-track, etc.)

ensure the physical recognition of the path;

promote and create "expectations";

create a tourism product (routes, services, places of exchange, etc.);

improve the culture of the community and the education of the younger generation

The STA for recovery and enhancement of the Pescasseroli-Candela tratturo is regarded as

"global project" (A COMMON VISION) consisting of a series of actions (COORDINATED

ACTIONS/PROJECTS), all important, which would act almost simultaneously. The vision

proposed by the STA could be summarized as below:



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Tratturo as a greenway of the memory…

visible, recognizable, continuous and accessible

secure and maintained

equipped for the new features/new services

promoted and advertised

… for which all coordinate and collaborate

Figure 5: Strategic Agenda

(source: Provincia of Foggia design)

In the scenario of the tratturo as a visible, recognizable, continuous and accessible greenway

of the memory:

the tratturo is clearly identified in order to enhance the community ability to recognize it;

appropriate signs increase its fruition;

everyone should have the opportunity to walk along the tratturo, perhaps using new

technologies (virtual recognizability are aimed at increasing the viability physical);

local actors plan and program in a coordinate and collaborative way.

In the scenario of the tratturo as a secure and maintained greenway of the memory,

some interventions are necessary for the physical protection of the territory, including an

appropriate system management and maintenance of the tratturo and its areas pertaining;

the farmers "concessions" are sustainable and controlled to achieve the planned goals;

incentives are provided in order to orient current agricultural practices towards the

protection and preservation of the landscape.

In the scenario of the tratturo as an equipped for the new features/new services greenway of

the memory:

the slow mobility is organized: the tratturi are natural equestrian road and they became

cycling routes, hiking routes and for people with disabilities;

the tratturo is connected to the regional network of the tratturi, to the infrastructures

system for soft mobility of the regional ecological network; at interregional level, the

track of tratturo is connected: to the natural Italian paths of the tratturo and to the other

paths; at transactional and European level the path of the Tratturo Pescasseroli-Candela is

connected with the other trails of transhumance in Europe;

the local nature and culture are promoted by trained guides;

local guides are trained and guided tours are organized on the territory, in order to

structure an integrated tourist offer (an offer with also certified quality).

In the scenario of the tratturo as a promoted and advertised greenway of the memory:

promotional events contribute to focus on the protection and valorization issues;

the receptivity is organized in the farms and taverns, which are currently uninhabited but

all surveyed, to become a path, the historical tratturo requires places of exchanges and

facilities for all kind of users. Markets of close proximity;



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educational programs are based on active citizenship and on the ability of community to

maintain the territory.

Table 1: List of prioritized projects

Priority nr. Name of the project Topic Funding

opportunities

Opportunities for

partnership

1 Drafting of a

document, for the RDP

and ERDF negotiation

table

Territorial

planning

RDP

ERDF

Region, GAL, Famers

Associations

2 Sharing the content of

the POI.10

"Renovation and

development of

Pescasseroli-Candela”

Territorial

planning

RDP 2007-

2020

Region, Municipalities

3 Participation to the

drafting of the

"framework structure"

of the “Park of

Tratturi”

Territorial

planning

RDP 2007-

2020


4 Recovery of the signs

that make

recognizable the path

Natural and

cultural

resources

Regional funds PPP

5 Installation of signage

and informational

panels

Accessibility Regional funds PPP, Municipalities

6 Reconstitution of the

physical continuity of

the area of tratturo

Accessibility –

natural and

cultural

resources

Regional funds PPP and Municipalities

7 Organizing “The

national day of

tratturo"

Territorial

promotion

Municipalities

funds

Associations and

Municipalities

8 Creating an

interregional

consortium

Co-operation

and

management

Private funds PPP

9 Applications for

virtual visits and

assistance

Tourism Provincial funds PPP

10 Land art event Tourism –

Landscape

PO FESR 2007-

2013 Axis IV,

Actions 4.2.2 and

4.4.2

Region, Associations

11 Management and

maintenance system

Maintenance Municipalities and

Regional funds

Municipalities, PPP

12 Agricultural practices

towards protection

Environmental

protection

Regional funds Private



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and preservation of

the landscape

13 Integrated network of

soft mobility

Mobility Regional funds

14 Creating connections

with other paths

Tourism European funds PPP, Municipalities, Region

15 Training of guides Tourism Regional funds Private, Municipalities,

Region

16 Promotion and

dissemination

Territorial

promotion

Regional and

municipalities

funds

Private, PPP and

Municipalities

17 Multi-functionality of

the agricultural

entrepreneur

Agriculture RDP and regional

funds

Private

18 Education programs Education Regional funds Region, Private, Schools

5 Implementation of the STA

5.1 Key actors responsible for the implementation of the STA

Table 2: STA´s Action Plan of Provincia of Foggia area

Action

priority

nr.

Action Name Person

responsible

(member of

the UTF)

Status

(preparatory

phase/active/

not active)

Due

date

Date

completed

Funding

opportunitie

s

Opportunities

for partnership

1 Organizing the

first TTF

operational

meeting

Provincia di

Foggia

Preparatory

phase

Nov.

2014

- Provincial

Funds

2 Make known and

public the

creation of the

TTF and of the

signed

Partnership

Agreement

Provincia di

Foggia

Active Nov.

2014

I quarter

2015

Provincial

Funds

3 Presentation of

the STA to the

local community

Provincia di

Foggia

Active Dic.

2014

Provincial

Funds

4 Promoting the

Actions of the new

2014-2020

Programming

GAL (Local

Action

Group)

Meridaunia)

Active Jan

2015

- RDP 2014-

2020

(ERDF

2014-2020)

Region, GAL,

Famers

Associations

5 Adjustment of

Municipal Master

Provincia di

Foggia

Not active Jan

2015

IV quarter

2018

Municipality

funds

Region,

Municipalities



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Plans to POI

6 Organizing

meetings to

participate to

"framework

structure"

contents

Office “Park

of Tratturi”

– Apulia

Region

Active II

quarter

2014

IV quarter

2016

Regional

funds

Region,

Municipalities

7 Fit out the

Territorial Center

at the “Museo del

Territorio”

Provincia di

Foggia

Active Nov.

2014

Associations

8 Checking and

completing of the

recognition of

“signs” that make

recognizable the

path

Archeologic

a S.r.l.

Preparatory

phase

I quarter

2015

III quarter

2015

Regional

founds

PPP,

Municipalities

9 Executive projects

of any “signs”

identified as

priorities

Provincia of

Foggia

Not active III

quarter

2015

II quarter

2016

Regional

founds

PPP

10 Installation of

signage and

informational

panels

GAL (Local

Action

Group)

Meridaunia

Not active III

quarter

2015

IV quarter

2016

Regional

founds

PPP and

Municipalities

11 Monitoring phase

for the

reconstitution of

the physical

continuity of the

area of tratturo

Cicloamici Active III

quarter

2015

II quarter

2016

Regional

founds

PPP and

Municipalities

12 Organizing the

first National day

of tratturo” event

CAI (Italian

Alpine

Club)

Active II

quarter

2014

II quarter

2015

Municipalitie

s funds

Associations and

Municipalities

13 Applications for

virtual visits and

assistance

Provincia of

Foggia

Active II

quarter

2014

IV quarter

2014

Provincial

funds

PPP

14 Award of contract

for the Land Art

"60 Steps in

nature" activity

Provincia of

Foggia

Active IV

quarter

2014

II quarter

2015

PO FESR

2007-2013

Axis IV,

Actions 4.2.2

and 4.4.2

Region,

Associations

15 “Lab and Art"

sub-activities of

Land Art event

Provincia of

Foggia

Not active III

quarter

2015

II quarter

2020

PO FESR

2007-2013

Axis IV,

Actions 4.2.2

and 4.4.2

Region,

Associations

16 “Target land art”

sub-activities of

Land Art event

Provincia of

Foggia

Not active III

quarter

2015

II quarter

2020

PO FESR

2007-2013

Axis IV,

Actions 4.2.2

and 4.4.2

Region,

Associations

17 Drafting a

experimental

cultivation plan

“Azienda

agricola -

Russo

Preparatory

phase

I quarter

2015

IV quarter

2015

Regional and

private funds

Private



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and its economic

evaluation

Francesco”

18 Experimentation

in the field for

experimental

cultivation

“Azienda

agricola -

Russo

Francesco”

Not active I quarter

2016

IV quarter

2017

Regional Private

19 Monitoring the

status of places

for an integrated

network of soft

mobility

“Cicloamici

Association

” and “CAI

Foggia”

Active III

quarter

2014

III quarter

2015

Regional and

provincial

funds

Private,Associati

ons

20 Final design for

soft mobility

Provincia of

Foggia

Not active II

quarter

2015

II quarter

2016

Regional and

provincial

funds

21 Study of

connections with

other paths

“Promodaun

ia” and

“CAI

Foggia”


2015

IV quarter

2017

European

funds

PPP,

Municipalities,

Region

22 Training of guides Archeologic

a S.r.l.”

Not active III

quarter

2015

IV quarter

2016

Regional

funds

Private,

Municipalities,

Region

23 Schedule for

promotion and

dissemination

Apulia Felix

Foundation


2015

IV quarter

2017

Regional and

municipalitie

s funds

Private, PPP and

Municipalities

24 Finding lists of

economic

operators and

their activities

“Rete del

Mediterrane

o”


2015

II quarter

2015

Private funds Private,

Municipalities

25 Experimentation

with use of the

App

“Rete del

Mediterrane

o”

Not active III

quarter

2015

IV quarter

2017

Provincial

funds

Associations,

Private

26 Creating

multifunctional

networks

“Rete del

Mediterrane

o”


2015

DRP and

regional

funds

Private,

Associations,

Municipalities

27 Schedule for

education

programs

Centro Studi

Naturalistici

O.N.L.U.S.”

Not active II

quarter

2015

II quarter

2016

Regional

funds

Region, Private,

Schools

Table 3: STA´s Action Plan of Provincia of Foggia area in a timeline

nr Actions 2014 2015 2016 2017

3quarter 4quarter 1quarter 2quarter 3quarter 4quarter 1quarter 2quarter 3quarter 4quarter 1quarter 2quarter 3quarter 4quarter

1 Organize the first TTF

operational meeting

2 Make known and public

the creation of the TTF

and of the signed

Partnership Agreement

3 Presentation of the STA

to the local community

4 Promote the Actions of

the new 2014-2020

Programming



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5 Adjustment of Municipal

Master Plans to POI

6 Organize meetings to

participate to

"framework structure"

contents

7 Fit out the Territorial

Center at the “Museo del

Territorio”

8 Check and completing of

the recognition of

“signs” that make

recognizable the path

9 Executive projects of any

“signs” identified as

priorities

10 Installation of signage

and informational panels

11 Monitore phase for the

reconstitution of the

physical continuity of the

area of tratturo

12 Organize the first

National day of tratturo”

event

13 Applications for virtual

visits and assistance

14 Award of contract for the

Land Art "60 Steps in

nature" activity

15 “Lab and Art" sub-

activities of Land Art

event

16 “Target land art” sub-

activities of Land Art

event

17 Draft a experimental

cultivation plan and its

economic evaluation

18 Experimentation in the

field for experimental

cultivation

19 Monitor the status of

places for an integrated

network of soft mobility

20 Final design for soft

mobility

21 Study of connections

with other paths

22 Training of guides

23 Schedule for promotion

and dissemination

24 Finding lists of economic

operators and their

activities

25 Experimentation with

use of the App

26 Creating multifunctional

networks



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27 Schedule for education

programs

5.2 Risk assessment

Table 4: Risk assessment

Identification of the risk Qualitative risk

assessment

Responding on the

risk

Monitoring and control

Priority

nr.

Identification of the risk Reason Potential

effects

Probability

of occurance

(high /

medium /

low)

Impact

(high /

medium /

low)

Strategy

(Avoidance /

Reduction /

Sharing /

Acceptance)

Measure Person responsible Timeline

(monthly,

weekly,…)

1 Lack of founds Avoidance

2 Lack of co-

ordination

Reduction

3 Political change Acceptance

4

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5.3 Recommendations for the implementation of the STA

During the strategy implementation process, Regions, Province, Municipalities and stakeholders will collaborate in order to ensure the alignment of actions. The phases that are to be gone through during the implementation period of the strategy are summarized below:

Creating partnerships

Monitoring the strategy implementation

6 Project Fiches: Priority projects corresponding

to each goal/objective of the STA

Priority project nr. 1: Drafting of a document, for the RDP and ERDF negotiation table

Description

The project includes the participation to the negotiating table of Rural Development Program

(RDP 2014-2020) and Puglia Regional Operational Programme (ERDF 2014-2020), through the

drafting of a document to be submitted to the competent bodies during the negotiating table.

The project aims to orient or guide strategic policy choices of the next regional program 2014-

2020 in order to promote initiatives in support of all tratturi in the Provincia of Foggia. Among

other possible initiatives, the regional program could promote appropriate actions to guide the

agricultural practices or to improve the slow mobility in the area.

The actions of the STA are particularly consistent with the following priorities for the next RDP

2014-2020:

PRIORITY 2:

Strengthening the competitiveness of agriculture in all its forms and profitability of farms

PRIORITY 4:



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Restoring, preserving and enhancing ecosystems dependent on agriculture and forestry

Preserve and restore biodiversity including Natura 2000 sites, the high nature value

farming and the natural landscape of the European

Location

All the Apulian area of the tratturo Pescasseroli-Candela

Status

The document was already drawn up, signed by the local institutions (Municipalities and

representative of union or association of farmers) and sent to the Apulia Region (Annex 6).

The document identifies opportunities for strategic enhancement of the Apulian tratturo and asks

that can be transposed into programming the new PSR Region Puglia, the following useful

indications for restoration, maintenance and enhancement of areas of the tratturi:

for measures 213 and 214, the extension of the areas eligible for funding to areas of tratturi,

both in the areas of "pertinence" in the "annexed" areas ;

for measures 211, 212, 214, greater premium for the areas used for grazing; such a premium

could be approximated to that of the homologous measures implemented by the DSP of the

Campania and Molise Regions;

under the measure 216, introduction of an action providing for the creation of buffer strips,

tree lines, hedges and dry stone walls along the bands of the tratturi, in consideration of their

recognized function of terrestrial ecological corridors;

under measure 221, the introduction of a specific action aimed at the restoration of "mezzane",

planting specific tree species;

under measure 311, between the various criteria for diversification measures in non-

agricultural activities, the introduction of rewarding for the "subsistence farm near the

tratturo";

adopt a slight signage for the purpose of tourist use of the cattle track, through the nature trails

(measure 313)

enhancing the tratturo with intangible assets (communication, measuring 421 etc.)

The document has been signed by:

The Extraordinary Commissioner of the Provincia di Foggia

The Mayor of Comune di Anzano

The Mayor of Comune di Monteleone di Puglia

The Mayor of Comune di Rocchetta S.Antonio

The Mayor of Comune di S.Agata di Puglia

The Mayor of Comune di Candela

Local Action Group Meridaunia

Confagricoltura Foggia (union of farmers)

Copagri Foggia (union of farmers)

Coldiretti Foggia (union of farmers)

Confederazione Italiana Agricoltori (union of farmers)

ConfCoperative Foggia (union of farmers)

Timeline

-

Investments costs estimation

The project have no cost

Funding opportunities

RDP and ERDF 2007-2020

Opportunities for partnership (if applicable)

Region, GAL, Famers Associations

Priority project nr. 2: Sharing the content of the POI10 "Renovation and development of

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Description

Because the existing instruments for programming don’t consider the tratturo as a territorial

resource around which to build recovery and enhancement actions, the project considers strategic

to share and co-ordinate territorial planning tools in order to take action more coherent and aligned

with the common goal.

The action involves the review and the sharing of the planning strategies of the Integrated

Operational Plan) proposed by the Province of Foggia as executive plan of the regional landscape

plan. In such a way local institution can co-ordinate their territorial planning tools in order to take

action more coherent and aligned with the common goal.

Location


Status

The September 29, 2014, the institutional stakeholders (the concerned Municipalities) attended the

“conferenza dei servizi” (a sort of public agencies meeting) and signed the POI (Integrated

Operational Plan, (provided in the Apulian new landscape plan) devoted to safeguard and

valorization the tratturo Pescasseroli-Candela. (Annex 7)

Timeline

-




RDP 2007-2020



Priority project nr. 3: Participation to the drafting of the "framework structure" of the “Park

of Tratturi”

Description

Because the existing instruments for programming don’t consider the tratturo as a territorial

resource around which to build recovery and enhancement actions, the project considers strategic

to share and co-ordinate territorial planning tools in order to take action more coherent and aligned

with the common goal.

The project expect the participation of local institutions to the drafting of the "framework

structure" of the “Park of Tratturi”; such a plan, together with the "document of valorization”, that

will introduce the elements to enhance the system of tratturo, is the general framework for

programming by the Apulia Region.

Location


Status

In preparatory phase

Timeline

-




RDP 2007-2020



Priority project nr. 4: Recovery of the signs that make recognizable the path



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Description

The tratturo has to be clearly identified in order to enhance the community ability to recognize it.

The project expects to recovery those signs that made recognizable the pathway:

o the “cippi” – ancient stones boundary- are signals of the tratturo;

o works destined to make viable infrastructure, such as bridges

o artifacts of service to the shepherds and to their flocks, as the fountains

o properties for service and refreshments, such as taverns

o properties and artifacts of popular devotion linked to the pastoral life, such as churches,

sanctuaries, shrines and crosses road.

Making the tratturo recognizable and continuous could increase its fruition.

Location

All the area of the Regio tratturo Pescasseroli-Candela

Status

In preparatory phase.

In particular the “Archeologica S.r.l.”(a spin-off of the University of Foggia) is committed to

make the tratturo more visible, recognizable and usable as well as to make tratturo equipped for

the new features / services, through the study of signs that made it recognizable path.

Timeline

-


-


Regional funds


Public Private Partnerships

Priority project nr. 5: Installation of signage and informational panels

Description


The signage and the informational panels will be installed along the way of tratturo (referring to

the signs of the cadastre of the Apulia Network Trekking and to the conventional signage of the

CAI (Italian Alpine Club).

Making the tratturo recognizable and continuous could increase its fruition.

Location


Status


Timeline

-


-


Regional funds


Public Private Partnerships, Municipalities

Priority project nr. 6: Reconstitution of the physical continuity of the area of tratturo

Description

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The action expects some interventions devoted to the physical protection of the territory,

including:

o securing of pedestrian and bicycle paths and of bridleways

o restoration of trails and/or runs on tracks that no longer exist

o projects of greenways and cycle routes that constitute the base of an integrated network of

soft mobility (ref. regional law 21/2003 "Norms on activities and excursions networks of

Puglia " and Regulation n.23/2007 “Regulation for the implementation of the Apulian

excursions networks”)

o recovering of cultural heritage and of the sparse buildings

Three phases are provided: the monitoring, the designing, the execution of works.

In the monitoring phase (already started), the bikers and the walkers followed the track of

the tratturo trying to highlight what may be the problems and the potential of the path. Such

an assessment is finalized to the organization of cycle paths but, more importantly, to

identify the type of services needed. (see Annex 8 and 9)

In the designing phase will be identified the type of services needed.

Location


Status


Timeline

-


-


Regional funds


Public Private Partnerships, Municipalities

Priority project nr. 7: Organizing “The national day of tratturo”

Description

The “day of tratturi" is an interregional event of trekking that will held annually; such event

involves the associations of the walkers, the riders, the cyclists but also the schools and their

students.

It is organized by the CAI (of the Apulia, Campania and Abruzzo regions) and promoted and

advertised also by the Municipalities.

The CAI is the coordinator of the organization of the "National Day of Tratturo", that will take

place along the entire length of the Regio tratturo Pescasseroli-Candela.

As promotional event, it will contribute to focus on the protection and valorization issues.

Location


Status

In progress.

The description of the activities: At the moment, the CAI produces an outline of the event that that

it is sharing with the other involved stakeholders (see Annex 10) e that and which includes the

following actions:

the "National Day of Tratturi" is publicized through a communication system that starts from

the regions involved and see that the municipalities in the front row, along the Pescasseroli -

Candle; associations and schools are involved and the latters will have a "theme/search" on the

culture-history that the tratturo left to our generation;



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at the same time, in all organized events, we kick off to the path to the sound of a "bell" that

symbolically indicated in Agnone;

every municipality welcomes walkers crossed with a "simple and pastoral refreshment" in a

festive crossing the town;

arriving at the end of each path with a simple demonstration pastoral background.;

each municipality is free to organize the event in the way that best characterizes their

contextual reality.

The first "National Day of Tratturi" will be held in Spring 2015

Timeline

-


The costs will be borne by the organizers and of the involved associations and municipalities


Municipalities funds


Associations, Municipalities

Priority project nr. 8: Creating an interregional consortium

Description

The project expects the creation of an interregional consortium that could have a direct access to

European funding, provide immediate guidance for the promotion of goods and involve the private

sector (Confescercenti, Confconsumatori, agricultural structures, etc.).

Location


Status

Not active.

Timeline

-


-


Private funds


Public Private Partnership

Priority project nr. 9: Applications for virtual visits and assistance

Description

The project expects to realize applications (basically building an app and a website) for virtual

visits and assistance with navigation tablet. The idea is that everyone should have the opportunity

to walk along the tratturo, and that the virtual recognizability should be aimed at increasing the

viability physical.

The applications realized with this project aims to: support the process of participation and

involvement of local communities, identify the pathways, organize events, and, still, support the

monitoring actions. (Annex 11)

Location


Status

In preparatory phase. The Provincia of Foggia is selecting experts to involve in the project.

Timeline



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-


-


Provincial funds


Public Private Partnerships

Priority project nr. 10: Land art event

Description

The project expects to make the area of tratturo an open-air museum through the installations by

land art along the tratturo Pescasseroli-Candela. Such a project may contribute to focus on the

most significant places; the installations will be inspired by the themes of farming and the rural

world and made with eco-sustainable materials. The project of SAC (Environment and Cultural

Systems) “Monti Dauni e Lucera” is currently working on such an idea).

The project, which will last for five years, involves the activity entitled "60 Steps in nature"; it is

an enhancement activity of a portion of the royal tratturo Candela-Pescasseroli. In detail, such

project involves the construction of the following sub-activities:

1 "Lab and Art" - land art laboratories:

2 "Target land art" - photo-video stories: the creation of groups of individuals passionate about

photography and video. (Annex 12)

Location

A limited area of the tratturo.

Status

-

Timeline

-


-


PO FESR 2007-2013 Axis IV, Actions 4.2.2 and 4.4.2


Region, Associations

Priority project nr. 11: Management and maintenance system

Description

The “system for management and maintenance the tratturo” is a project that involves the

collaboration between institutions. Such a system includes:

Constant cleaning of the areas of tratturo from waste and weed species

modest interventions of water regulation of surface runoff

recovery of ancient sources, of existing sources and of troughs along the tratturo

facilities for the granting of grazing

control of the territory

recovery / visual mitigation of the impact of industrial areas (production areas along the SS 89

and SS 16);

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recovery of the landscape through the maintenance areas of tratturo: native plants along the

edge of tratturo and actions of naturalization; buffer strips, tree lines, hedges and dry stone

walls along the bands of tratturo, in consideration of their recognized function of terrestrial

ecological corridors; avenues of access to the city; wildflower (peri-urban areas and / or fringe

roads).

The system for management and maintenance the tratturo also includes:

native plants along the border of tratturo and actions of naturalization (see funding of RDP);

buffer strips, tree lines, hedgerows and dry stone walls along the bands of tratturo (because of

their recognized function of terrestrial ecological corridors);

tree-lined avenues of access to the cities;

wildflower (in peri-urban areas and / or fringe road) - aesthetic and landscape enhancement

and environmental restoration at low energy input of anthrop environments through the

characterization and use of wildflowers originated by species and ecotypes.

Location

All the area of the Region tratturo Pescasseroli-Candela

Status

Not active.

Timeline

-


-


Municipalities and Regional funds


PPP and Municipalities

Priority project nr. 12: Agricultural practices towards protection and preservation of the

landscape

Description

The project expects to orient the agricultural practices (e.g. plowing, crop basis) towards the

protection and preservation of the landscape, through the provision of incentives and the

concession of the areas of the tratturo. The granting of the concession to farmers could be

conditioned with the commitment to act in order to safeguard the legibility of tratturo (e.g. through

plants and, in the case of use of arable land, respecting the direction of plowing parallel to the

longitudinal axis of the tratturo). Such a condition would be compensated, with the possibility of

access to the benefits of the RDP, extended not only to the owners of the funds, but also to those

having non-ownership title to lead the funds, thus including tenants and licensees.

In particular the “Azienda agricola - Russo Francesco” is committed to:

make available to stakeholders their experience and expertise in the field of coexistence

between the ecosystems reconstruction and biodiversity and the economic exploitation of the

agricultural resource;

the promotion and the non-economic sustenance of proposed initiatives;

broaden their field trials to reach new goals of coexistence between the natural and agricultural

crops, based on the needs that emerge from the work of the task force.

The “Azienda agricola - Russo Francesco” will experience the closing of a short chain.

The GAL Meridaunia will ensure the widest possible dissemination of news, of the activities and

initiatives related to the tratturo, through its tools and partnership networks.

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The agricultural area of pertinence of the tratturo

Status

Not active

Timeline

-


-


Regional funds


Private

Priority project nr. 13: Integrated network of soft mobility

Description

The project tries to organize the slow mobility: the tratturos are natural equestrian road and they

can become cycling routes, hiking routes and for people with disabilities. Walkers need a special

signage, safety, receptivity (water for wash, minimal accommodation) a stopping every 30 miles

(also every 10), the accessibility to the near villages, the “certification of walker”. Bikers need an

inventory of existing little fountains, small oasis with trees, a stopping every 10-15 miles, stopping

areas, technical assistance services with an even minimal endowment of tools and equipment for

the repair kit. Horsemen need to: space and resources for stopping, for the care and feeding of the

horses; services as horseshoer, veterinary, etc.

The receptivity should be organized in the farms and taverns, which are currently uninhabited but

all surveyed, to become a path, the historical tratturo requires places of exchanges and facilities

for all kind of users.

In particular the “Apulia Felix Foundation” is committed to involving citizenship to share and

implement an open consultation on the design of the works of slow mobility or of other ways of

using the path.

Location


Status


Timeline

-


-


Regional funds


-

Priority project nr. 14: Creating connection with other paths

Description

The Pescasseroli-Candela tratturo must be connected:

at the regional level the tratturo:



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o to the regional network of the tratturo; it has a cultural, environmental, and ecological

relevance and it could have important implications in both the touristic and transportation

sectors

o to the infrastructures system for soft mobility tratturi can host most of the mobility system

slow) (rif. Regional Landscape Plan)

o to the regional ecological network (the tratturi are “rivers of grass” that unite the two main

poles: the Gargano and the mountains Dauni

at interregional level, the track of tratturo to the other paths (eg.: path of the Francigena route,

funding from the Region for the signs; homologation paths CAI)

at transactional and European level:

o by relating the path of the Tratturo Pescasseroli-Candela with the other trails of

transhumance in Europe; by sharing projects and experiences with other EU countries;

o by protecting the tratturo as world heritage site (Unesco)

In particular the “Archeologica S.r.l.” is committed to those activities devoted to make the tratturo

equipped for the new features / services, through the study of the connections with other cultural

routes.

Location

-

Status

Not active.

Timeline

-


-


European funds


PPP, Municipalities, Region

Priority project nr. 15: Training of guides

Description

In order to structure an integrated touristic offer (an offer with also certified quality), local guides

must be trained and guided tours should be organized on the territory:

youth cooperatives,

network businesses,

educational farms

Trained guides, that can be organized as business, may manage information points for visitors, and

may articulate proposals for stay.

In particular the “Archeologica S.r.l.”(a spin-off of the University of Foggia) is committed to make

the tratturo equipped for the new features / services, through the the training of tourist guides.

Location

-

Status

Not active

Timeline

-




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-


Regional funds


Private, Municipalities, Region

Priority project nr. 16: Promotion and dissemination

Description

Promotional events could contribute to focus on the protection and valorization issues. The project

expects:

promotional events, participation in trade fairs

promotion through the instrument of the web and using new technologies

In particular:

the GAL (Local Action Group) Meridaunia is committed to ensure the widest possible

dissemination of news, of the activities and initiatives related to the tratturo, through its tools

and partnership networks;

the Apulia Felix Foundation ” is committed to inviting artistically talented young people to

rethink the tratturo and promoting contests of ideas for its enhancement;

Promodaunia is committed to shoot movies for popularizing and promoting of the tratturo

Location


Status

In preparatory phase

Timeline

-


-


Regional and municipalities funds


Private, PPP and Municipalities

Priority project nr. 17: Multi-functionality of the agricultural entrepreneur

Description

The project aims to develop and stimulate the multifunctionality of the agricultural entrepreneurs

through incentives for:

receptivity, forms of agritourism, rural tourism, bed & breakfast, picnic areas for the bivouac

catering and sales of agricultural products

markets of proximity

In particular:

the “Centro Studi Naturalistici O.N.L.U.S.” si committed to provide their own professional

experience in the field of animal sciences and plant sciences through organization of

promotional touristic packages;



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the “Rete del Mediterraneo” is committed to market the guided tours in order to improve the

economic impact of the attractors and organize courses for the inclusion of "best practices" for

innovation in processes, for the purpose of a territorial integration and a social cohesion

Location

Agricultural areas

Status

Not active.

Timeline

-


-


RDP and regional funds


Private

Priority project nr. 18: Education programs

Description

The project includes educational programs for children and schools.

In particular the “Centro Studi Naturalistici O.N.L.U.S.” is committed to provide their own

professional experience in the field of animal sciences and plant sciences through educational

outreach activities.

Location

-

Status

Not active.

Timeline

-


-


Regional funds


Region, Private, Schools

7 The PosterPlan

The Poster Plan represents the summary of the STA in Provincia di Foggia area.



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8 Conclusions

The findings of the working groups and plenary discussions lead to the idea that a strategic

Agenda for recovery and enhancement of the tratturo should provide a "global project"

consisting of a series of actions, all important, which should act almost simultaneous. The

tratturo is, and remains, a path whose original functions were lost but that has other

recognizable features; these are the features of: a terrestrial ecological corridor, a natural

course (on foot, on horseback, by bicycle and for different types of users), an open-air

museum. These new features should be, of course, ensured. In order to assure such new

functions/features, during the meetings, participants in the workshop proposed many actions

that could be summarized in the followings:

Actions to create the path (or the paths) and, at the same time, both the "open air museum"

(to guarantee the preservation of historical memory) and its contribution to the network of

ecological corridors;

Actions to ensure the safety of the tratturo and its maintenance (also through incentives to

dealers, or the establishment of figures as that of guardian of the sheep-track, etc.)Azioni

volte a garantire la riconoscibilità fisica del tratturo;

Actions aimed at the promotion and at the creation of "expectations";

Actions aimed at creating a tourism product (routes, services, places of exchange, etc.);

Action to improve the culture of the community and the education of the younger

generation;

Among all these actions there are no priority actions in relation to the other ones. However,

all the participants agree that, perhaps, the interventions that have priority (if of priority we

want to speak) are interventions aimed at increasing recognizability of the tratturo.

9 References

Regional Landscape and Territorial Plan (PPTR) adopted in 2010

Provincial Territorial Plan (PTCP) approved in 2009

‘Monti Dauni’ Local Development Plan (LDP) drafted by Local Action Group ‘Meridaunia’in

2010 (30 municipalities involved) http://www.meridaunia.it/

Documento Programmatico per la rigenerazione territoriale – I borghi della Cultura (Edited

by Meridaunia scarl)

http://www.reterurale.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/3545/UT/systemPrint

10 Annexes

Annex 1. Attendance lists

Annex 2. Agenda of the workshops

Annex 3. Pictures of the workshops

Annex 4. Graphical outputs (like maps, drawings, etc)

Annex 5. Summary of discussions of 2th workshop (the working progress document sent to

participants) 1

http://www.meridaunia.it/

http://www.reterurale.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/3545/UT/systemPrint



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Annex 6. Signed document for the RDP and ERDF negotiation table

Annex 7. “Conferenza dei servizi” for the signature of the POI

Annex 8. Contribution edited by “FIAB Foggia Cicloamici” and “Associazione Culturale

Lanterne” (cover)

Annex 9. Monitoring the state of tratturo edited by “FIAB Foggia Cicloamici” (executive

summary)

Annex 10. First agenda of the “National Day of Tratturo” edited by “CAI Foggia”

Annex 11. Invitation letter to public tender with technical annexes for APP implementation

Annex 12. Letter and technical annexes for starting competitive public tender on “60 passi nella

natura“ project



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Annex 1 - Attendance lists

First Workshop



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Second Workshop

Workgroup – 25 febbraio 2014

NO. INSTITUTION ADDRESS CONTACT

PERSON

CONTACT DETAILS

1. Istituto Comprensivo di

Accadia

Via Roma, 24 -

71021 Accadia (Fg)

Silvana Addesa 340.5690406

[email protected]

2. Confagricoltura - Foggia V.le Manfredi , 1,

Foggia

Emidio Ursitti 339.5329845

[email protected]

3. Associazione P.S.

Mancini

Bartolomeo

Distefano

0827.93009

4. Maria Valentina

Lorusso

348.4706725

[email protected]

5. Regione Puglia – Ufficio

parco tratturi

P.zza Cavour, 23 -

71121 Foggia

Giuseppe Baia 328.4280370

[email protected]


parco tratturi

P.zza Cavour, 23 -

71121 Foggia

Vincenza Nigri 328.2667661

[email protected]

7. Dalmazia

Puopolo

339.3864084

[email protected]

8.

Start Up, Cooperativa

sociale CAI Foggia

Michele Del

Giudice

393.8917725

0881.687975

[email protected]

[email protected]

9. Borghi d’Eccellenza, Vie

Francigene

Maurizio

Varriano

333.6600619

[email protected]


Francigene

Margherita

Quercia

335.5310583

[email protected]

11.

Pro loco Sepino Piazza Nerazio

Prisco n.40a Sepino

(CB),86017

Michelino

Napolitano

327.7439131

[email protected]

12. Comune di Anzano di

Puglia

Piazza Municipio,

2, Anzano di Puglia

Foggia

Michele Rossi 349.8167537

[email protected]

13.

Comune di Anzano di

Puglia

Piazza Municipio,

2, Anzano di Puglia

Foggia

Giuseppe Di

Paola

348.0855673

[email protected]

ia.fg.it

14.

Comune di Anzano di

Puglia

Piazza Municipio,

2, Anzano di Puglia

Foggia

Paolo Lavanga 0881.982037

349.3255494

[email protected]

a.fg.it

15.

Provincia di Foggia –

Ufficio Assetto del

Territorio

Via Paolo

Telesforo, 53,

Foggia

Stefano Biscotti 335.7441367

0881.791347

[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]



















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16.


Ufficio assetto del

Territorio

Via Paolo

Telesforo, 53,

Foggia

Giovanna Caratù 0881.791328

349.1547973

[email protected]

17. Provincia di Foggia –

Ufficio assetto del

Territorio

Via Paolo

Telesforo, 53,

Foggia

Adele Celino 347.5759540

[email protected]

Workgroup – 11 marzo 2014


PERSON

CONTACT DETAILS

1. Centro Studi Naturalistici

ONLUS

Via Vittime Civili,

64, 71121 Foggia

Matteo Caldarella 347.3037851

[email protected]

2.

Comune di Anzano di

Puglia

Piazza Municipio,

2, Anzano di Puglia

Foggia

Michele Rossi 349.8167537

[email protected]

3. Andrano

Vincenzo

333.1687352

[email protected]

4.

Soprintendenza Beni

Archeologici Puglia -

Centro Operativo per

l'Archeologia della

Daunia - Foggia

Via De Nittis, 7 -

71100 Foggia

Antonio

Gaudiano

328.7267893

antonio.gaudiano@beniculturali.

it

5.

Soprintendenza Beni



l'Archeologia della

Daunia - Foggia

Via De Nittis, 7 -

71100 Foggia

Italo M. Muntoni 0881725458

italomaria.muntoni@benicultura

li.it

6.

Regione Puglia -

Provinciale Agricoltura di

Foggia

Piazza U.

Giordano, 1 (Pal.

Uffici Statali) -

71100 Foggia

Antonio Ursitti 0881.706549

349.8601148

[email protected]

7.

FIAB- Federazione

Italiana Amici Bicicletta,

Ass. di Vol. Cicloamici

Foggia

Via P. Telesforo,

140 – 71122 Foggia

Giuseppe

Dimunno

329.3157647

[email protected]

8.

Comune di Rocchetta

Sant’Antonio

Piazza A. Moro

n.12, Rocchetta

Sant’Antonio

Angeloantonio

Mastropietro

328.4205675

0885.654007

[email protected]

9.


sociale CAI Foggia

Michele Del

Giudice

393.8917725

0881.687975

[email protected]

[email protected]

10. Borghi d’Eccellenza, Vie Maurizio 333.6600619

















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Francigene Varriano [email protected]


Francigene

Margherita

Quercia

335.5310583

[email protected]

12.

FIAB- Federazione

Italiana Amici Bicicletta,

Ass. di Vol. Cicloamici

Foggia

Via P. Telesforo,

140 – 71122 Foggia

Antonio Dembech 348.8822041

[email protected]

13. Centro Ippico Fitetrec “La

Contessa”

Località "La

Contessa", Foggia

Franco Cuttano 320.2514797

[email protected]


Ufficio assetto del

Territorio

Via Paolo

Telesforo, 53,

Foggia


0881.791347

[email protected]

15.


Ufficio assetto del

Territorio

Via Paolo

Telesforo, 53,

Foggia


349.1547973

[email protected]


Ufficio assetto del

Territorio

Via Paolo

Telesforo, 53,

Foggia


[email protected]



PERSON

CONTACT DETAILS


parco tratturi

P.zza Cavour, 23 -

71121 Foggia

Anna Maria

Demilio

0881.706581

[email protected]


parco tratturi

P.zza Cavour, 23 -

71121 Foggia

Maria Rosaria

Settimo

0881.706583

[email protected]


parco tratturi

P.zza Cavour, 23 -

71121 Foggia

Lucia De Luca 0881.706565

[email protected]

4.


sociale CAI Foggia

Via Ernesto

Petrone, 60, Foggia

Michele Del

Giudice

393.8917725

0881.687975

[email protected]

[email protected]

5. Antonello Del

Giudice

380.1261158

[email protected]

6.

Soprintendenza Beni



l'Archeologia della

Daunia - Foggia

Via De Nittis, 7 -

71100 Foggia

Antonio

Gaudiano

328.7267893

antonio.gaudiano@beniculturali.

it

7.

Soprintendenza Beni



l'Archeologia della

Daunia - Foggia

Via De Nittis, 7 -

71100 Foggia

Italo M. Muntoni 0881725458

italomaria.muntoni@benicultura

li.it

8. ANPCI (Associazione UN.COM.ALTO Orazio Ciummo 335.8418400




















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nazionale Piccoli Comuni

d’Italia) - Molise

VOLTURNO (Is)

9.

Associazione Terre e

Uomini dei Monti Dauni

Via Favata'

Giovanni, Candela

Francesca

Capaldo

329.9854530

[email protected]

10. Associazione Terre e


Via Favata'

Giovanni, Candela

Francesca

Buccino

329.9854530

[email protected]


Francigene

Maurizio

Varriano

333.6600619

[email protected]


Francigene

Margherita

Quercia

335.5310583

[email protected]


Ufficio Assetto del

Territorio

Via Paolo

Telesforo, 53,

Foggia


0881.791347

[email protected]

14.


Ufficio assetto del

Territorio

Via Paolo

Telesforo, 53,

Foggia


349.1547973

[email protected]


Ufficio assetto del

Territorio

Via Paolo

Telesforo, 53,

Foggia


[email protected]



PERSON

CONTACT DETAILS

1. Associazione Terre e


Via Favata'

Giovanni, Candela

Vito Malgieri [email protected]

2.



Via Favata'

Giovanni, Candela

Francesca

Capaldo

329.9854530

[email protected]

3.



Via Favata'

Giovanni, Candela

Francesca

Buccino

349.96928742

[email protected]


parco tratturi

P.zza Cavour, 23 -

71121 Foggia

Anna Maria

D’Emilio

0881.706581

[email protected]


parco tratturi

P.zza Cavour, 23 -

71121 Foggia

Vincenza Nigri 328.2667661

[email protected]

6.


sociale CAI Foggia

Via Ernesto

Petrone, 60, Foggia

Michele Del

Giudice

393.8917725

0881.687975

[email protected]

[email protected]


Francigene

Maurizio

Varriano

333.6600619

[email protected]


Francigene

Margherita

Quercia

335.5310583

[email protected]

9. GAL Meridaunia Piazza Municipio, Laura Mariano 0881.912007

[email protected]




















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2, Bovino

10. Confagricoltura - Foggia V.le Manfredi , 1,

Foggia

Emidio Ursitti 339.5329845

[email protected]




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Annex 2 - Agenda of the workshops



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Agenda of the second workshop

Martedì 25 febbraio 2014

Sede: Comune di Anzano di Puglia

Registrazione dei partecipanti

Apertura dei

lavori

15.30

Benvenuto da parte dell’istituzione ospite

Presentazione degli obiettivi del workshop

Introduzione all’Agenda dei lavori

Interventi

programmati

16.15

Presentazione dei nuovi partecipanti

Presentazione delle conclusioni del precedente workshop

(report STATUS)

Interventi programmati

Gli interventi programmati avranno l’obiettivo di introdurre i

partecipanti alle questioni sollevate durante il primo incontro

offrendo l’occasione di approfondirle. Tra gli altri, interverranno:

Regione Puglia, Provincia, Comuni e Associazioni di categoria

Formazione

Gruppi di lavoro

18.00

Sintesi dei temi da affrontare nei gruppi di lavoro

FORMAZIONE E PRESENTAZIONE DEI GRUPPI DI LAVORO

Accessibilità

Paesaggio

Proprietà

Governance

Plenaria e

chiusura dei

lavori

19.00

Discussione plenaria

CHIUSURA DEI LAVORI

Martedì 11 marzo 2014

Sede: Provincia di Foggia




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Apertura dei

lavori

15.30



Lavoro in gruppo Presentazione dei nuovi partecipanti

GRUPPO DI LAVORO: Paesaggio

Discussione sulle conclusioni del primo WS e della prima giornata

Sintesi delle criticità

Possibili soluzioni

Definizione delle priorità

Evidenza delle possibili esternalità negative o positive (conflitti,

difficoltà, etc.)

Opportunità di finanziamento delle nuove proposte

CHIUSURA DELLA SESSIONE




Apertura dei

lavori

15.30




GRUPPO DI LAVORO: Accessibilità



Possibili soluzioni



difficoltà, etc.)




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Apertura dei

lavori

15.30




GRUPPO DI LAVORO: Proprietà



Possibili soluzioni



difficoltà, etc.)





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Annex 3 - Pictures of the workshops

First Workshop



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Second workshops

25 February 2014 – Comune di Anzano di Puglia




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18 March 2014 – Provincia di Foggia





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Annex 4 - Graphical outputs of the second workshop

Figure: The graphical output discussed in the workgroup “Governance and Stakeholders”



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Figure: The graphical output discussed in the workgroup “Accessibility”.



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Figure: The graphical output discussed in the workgroup “Landscape



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Annex 5 – Summary of discussions of 2th workshop

first Workshop – November 19, 2013

second Worshop – February 25, 2014

March 11

March 18

March 25

The network of the tratturi …

• It is the story of the large flows of people and sheep that moved from the Abruzzo Region and they arrived

in the Apulian Region

• It is a park, the most important park of the Region; it is a particular park: branched, reticular ... a public

property

• It is a common good made up of many things, including of history

A strategic Agenda for recovery and enhancement of the tratturo should provide a "global project" consisting of

a series of actions, all important, which should act almost simultaneously. The tratturo is, and remains, a path

whose original functions were lost but that has other recognizable features; these are the features of: a terrestrial

ecological corridor, a natural course (on foot, on horseback, by bicycle and for different types of users), an open-

air museum. These new features should be, of course, ensured. In order to assure such new functions/features,

during the meetings, participants in the workshop proposed many actions (ref meeting of November 19) that

could be summarized in the followings:

Actions to create the path (or the paths) and, at the same time, both the "open air museum" (to guarantee the

preservation of historical memory) and its contribution to the network of ecological corridors;

Actions to ensure the safety of the tratturo and its maintenance (also through incentives to dealers, or the

establishment of figures as that of guardian of the sheep-track, etc.)

Actions aimed at the promotion and at the creation of "expectations";

Actions aimed at creating a tourism product (routes, services, places of exchange, etc.);

Action to improve the culture of the community and the education of the younger generation;

To ensure both the creation of this strategic agenda and the start of its implementation, it is necessary, of course,

the establishment of a task force with design skills, able to connect with the bodies and the competent

authorities.

Among all these actions there are no priority actions in relation to the other ones. However, all the participants

agree that, perhaps, the interventions that have priority (if of priority we want to speak) are interventions aimed

at increasing recognizability of the tratturo.

The actions that the participants consider important to be carried out (which, in truth, are already being planned

by the working group of the project STATUS) are:

1. Drafting a document, for the negotiation table, in which it is proposed the tratturo Pescasseroli-Candela as a

priority for the next programming CAP (PSR in the first place). The document should identify opportunities

for strategic enhancement of the Apulian tratturi, that have to be submitted to the attention of both local

governments and the Apulia Region. Such a document could orient or guide strategic policy choices of the

next regional program 2014-2020. Such a document could identify, among other things, the appropriate

actions to guide the agricultural practices.

2. Creating an interregional consortium, a "control booth" (with its operating unit) with coordination functions.

The consortium can sit at the negotiating table, to be accredited by the Ministry, have direct access to

European funding, provide immediate guidance for the promotion of goods and involve the private sector

(Confescercenti, Confconsumatori, agricultural structures, etc.)

3. Using technology (basically building an app and a website): to support the process of participation and

involvement of local communities, to identify the pathways, to organize events, and, still, to support the

monitoring actions.

4. Organizing the "day of tratturi", involving the associations of the walkers, the riders, cyclists but also

schools and students. The CAI proposes an interregional event (with CAI and the regions of Puglia,



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Campania and Abruzzo) of trekking; this event should be organized and promoted also by the

Municipalities. On the same day the event will be proposed for cyclists and riders.

5. Organizing the land art event.

GOVERNANCE

h. Critical issues

• there is a lack of coordination and planning • there is a lack of a comprehensive and coherent strategy to make the individual actions of local actors

efficient • the proposed development of a tratturo, as a great opportunity for territorial development, inevitably

requires the cooperation of local actors • we often talk of a segment of the tratturo, that one of the Puglia region, and not of the entire royal

tratturo Proposals

• The vision of the Pescasseroli-Candela tratturo must be introduced in a system vision: o at the regional level the tratturo must be connected:

to the regional network of the tratturi (for the park of tratturi, the Apulia region is currently drafting the "framework structure", which will be the general framework for programming, and the "document of valorization" that will introduce the elements to enhance the system of tratturi); the Regional Park of Tratturi is a regional park that would need the same

incentives of the other regional parks. On the other hand, it has a cultural, environmental, and

ecological relevance and it could have important implications in both the touristic and

transportation sectors

to the infrastructures system for soft mobility tratturi can host most of the mobility system slow) (rif. PPTR)

to the regional ecological network (the tratturi are “rivers of grass” that unite the two main poles: the Gargano and the mountains Dauni

o at interregional level, the track of tratturo must be connected: at interregional level, the track of tratturo must be connected; to the other paths (eg.: path of the Francigena route, funding from the Region for the signs;

homologation paths CAI) o at transactional and European level:

by relating the path of the Tratturo Pescasseroli-Candela with the other trails of transhumance in Europe; by sharing projects and experiences with other EU countries;

by protecting the tratturo as world heritage site (Unesco)

The Council of Europe has added the Via Francigena and the tratturi between the priority

paths . (The Municipality of Formello opened an info point)

You should refer to national and international users; in this vision, the path must be proposed in its

completeness.

• A consortium and a “control booth”, for the functions of coordination, are needed both to participate in the negotiating tables and to be accredited by the Ministry; with the Consortium and its design skills you might have direct access to European funding. It will be proposed as a tool that is able to access to different types and forms of financing for the enhancement of the tratturo. The Consortium would

allow a public dialogue. The consortium may give directions for the immediate promotion of the

products. The Consortium should be interregional and directed by trade associations (eg. Confescercenti, Confconsumatori, agricultural structures) and by local governments. Preparing a draft with the main features of the Consortium could be the first step towards the

certification by the Department of Tourism (Ministry of BBCC). Such a draft has to be organized in

order to access to 2014-2020 funding. The signing of an agreement by the various parties would be

important to carry out this initiative and establish a plan of action on tratturo

• Thematic groups could be set up; for these groups, the practice of reconstructing the landscape should be one of the strategic objectives to be pursued together.



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To move forward …

What are the possible interventions?

What are the subjects that can achieve them?

With what resources or tools?

i. Critical issues • The current funding and programming do not consider the tratturo as common goods to be improved

and do not allocate financial resources for activities in that area. Greater efforts are needed to change such an idea.

• There is difficulty in identifying the tools that allow you to work in a more coordinated way. Proposals

• In the STATUS process it may be appropriate to prepare a document proposing the tratturo Pescasseroli-Candela as a priority and to bring to the negotiating table to the next programming 2014-2020. This document should identify opportunities for strategic valorization of the tratturi of Puglia, in order to guide strategic policy choices of the next regional program 2014-2020. The

associations of the agricultural world, together with the Regional Offices and the LAG Meridaunia,

must be interpreters and promoters of this initiative to get to the final draft of the negotiation document.

To move forward …




ACCESSIBILITY

a. Critical issue: - Vi è una percezione limitata del tratturo

• The tratturo is a good of inestimable value, it is not always visible by the local community; This is, in part, because the tratturo has lost its original function

• The local community that seems to be indifferent to the issues of its protection and valorization • The agriculture, with its practices, is contributing to the modification of the original “river of grass • It is increasingly losing its accessibility, its continuity and the set of elements that make it recognizable • Much public money has been spent in the area, but this has not changed such a trend Proposals

• Make the area of tratturo an open-air museum Installations by land art along the Pescasseroli-Candela track may contribute to focus on the most significant places; such installations may be inspired by the themes of farming and the rural world and made with eco-sustainable materials. The project of SAC (Environment and Cultural Systems) “Monti Dauni e Lucera” is currently working on such an idea)

• The tratturo has to be clearly identified in order to enhance the community ability to recognize it. Appropriate signs could increase its fruition (ref. the signs on the paths for the formation of the cadastre of the Apulia Network Trekking; the signage conventional of the CAI (Italian Alpine Club); the use of “cippi” – ancient stones boundary)

• Promotional events could contribute to focus on the protection and valorization issues; the “tratturo

day” could become an interregional organized event involving the associations of trekkers, of knights,

of bikers but also the schools at all levels • Educational programs, also in schools, should be based on active citizenship and on the ability of

community to maintain the territory

• The “cippi” – ancient stones boundary- are signals of the tratturo

• We need to "grow" the riders, cyclists and walkers.

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b. Critical issue - Vi è una limitata fruibilità del tratturo Physical accessibility

• Not all the tratturo is practicable

• The area of tratturo is not always visible and physically perceived • Along the tratturo the morphological features are very different • The farmers, during plowing operations, divert the waters on tratturo making it not usable; in some

cases, occupying it with their crops.

Proposals

• Some interventions are necessary for the physical protection of the territory, including an appropriate

system management and maintenance; these are:

o securing of pedestrian and bicycle paths and of bridleways

o restoration of trails and/or runs on tracks that no longer exist

o projects of greenways and cycle routes that constitute the base of an integrated network of soft

mobility (ref. regional law 21/2003 "Norms on activities and excursions networks of Puglia " and

Regulation n.23/2007 “Regulation for the implementation of the Apulian excursions networks”)

o recovering of cultural heritage and of the sparse buildings

• The local nature and culture must be promoted by trained guides (youth cooperatives, network

businesses, educational farms)

• Everyone should have the opportunity to walk along the tratturo, perhaps using new technologies (eg

realizing applications for virtual visits and assistance with navigation tablet). The virtual recognizability

should be aimed at increasing the viability physical

• The farmers "concessions" must be sustainable and must be controlled to achieve the planned goals.

E.g.: the sod seeding could help to avoid the hydro-geological instability; in fact, during the plowing

actions, the drains (channels) of the surface are closed. It should only decide the better type of incentive

in order to change the practice.

• The slow mobility has to be organized: the tratturos are natural equestrian road and they can become

cycling routes, hiking routes and for people with disabilities. The receptivity should be organized in the

farms and taverns, which are currently uninhabited but all surveyed, to become a path, the historical

tratturo requires places of exchanges (eg. The park of Mezzane) and facilities for all kind of users.

Walkers need a special signage, safety, receptivity (water for wash, minimal accommodation) a

stopping every 30 miles (also every 10), the accessibility to the near villages, the “certification of

walker”. Bikers need an inventory of existing little fountains, small oasis with trees, a stopping every

10-15 miles, stopping areas.

• The critical and the potential issues of tratturo, proposed as a path, must be shown going through the

tratturo; only in such a way cycling routes and hiking routes could be organized The association

"Cicloamici" of Foggia proposes to follow the track of the tratturo trying to highlight what may be the

problems and the potential of the path. Such an assessment would be finalized to the organization of

cycle paths but, more importantly, to identify the type of services needed. Even for the bike stops and

services are needed. A few miles from the territory of Rocchetta, the tratturo could be to connected

with the European cycle route network.

• Actions are needed to ensure both the cleaning of micro landfills that now exist along the path, and

safety

• Establish the role of "guardian/keeper of the tratturo." Would be sufficient to ensure 1 keeper for every

30 km of track. The caretaker could ensure cleanliness and control.

• The tratturo must have the access gates to the park; if one, it could be in the middle of the track

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• The path along the tratturo is fragmented

• Not always the political and administrative choices have also been oriented to the safeguard of the

tratturo; many of the political and administrative choices are irreversibly transforming the landscape.

The existing wind farms, for example, are now difficult to displace and there are still political initiatives

that insist in such projects.

• Farmers have often occupied the central part of the tratturo, have left the pasture and have chosen crops

(or monocultures) that are not compatible with measures to protect the tratturo. There are not incentives

and opportunities for change such agricultural practices.

• The farmers practice monoculture too much

• The area of the tratturo is, in large part, occupied by paved roads (mainly road managed by the

Provincia di Foggia)

• The areas of the tratturo that are occupied by urban areas are irretrievably lost

• Landfills are everywhere; the abandonment of waste is an issue of sensitivity and culture; adults and

children should be behaved.

• there is no supervisory

• The process of fragmentation and trivialization of the landscape has caused a contraction and dwindling

of habitats

Proposals

• The maintenance of tratturo and its areas pertaining must be organized to ensure the physical security

of the tratturo. At the same time, the sensitivity to the issues of recovery and enhancement must grow.

In fact, recent maintenance actions have not produced the desired effect because they had not involved

the local community and farmers. The safety and maintenance may be a consequence of the recognition

of tratturo resource.

• Shares of landscape protection and of maintenance of the areas of the tratturo, could include:

o Native plants along the border of tratturo and actions of naturalization (see funding of RDP); buffer

strips, tree lines, hedgerows and dry stone walls along the bands of tratturo (because of their

recognized function of terrestrial ecological corridors);

o Tree-lined avenues of access to the cities;

o Wildflower (in peri-urban areas and / or fringe road) - aesthetic and landscape enhancement and

environmental restoration at low energy input of anthropic environments through the

characterization and use of wildflowers originated by species and ecotypes.

• Interventions of recovery / mitigation can reduce the visual impact of industrial areas (production areas

along the SS 89 and SS 16).

• In order to structure an integrated tourist offer (an offer with also certified quality), local guides must

be trained and guided tours should be organized on the territory.

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b. Critical issue – Instability of soil

Proposals

• Engineering projects to counteract natural hydro-geomorphological hazards

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PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

The royal tratturo is 110 meters wide; two-thirds side (the famous 60 steps from Naples) are given in

concession from Apulia region to farms and about 1/3 is still state-owned. This is a complex system to

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a. Critical issue – Land instability

• Successful actions have to deal with the complexity of the different administrative use and ownership

• Every action needs to involve the dealers, the state and all stakeholders.

• In addition to agricultural soils there is also an urbanized part and a part that still preserves its

naturalness (remnant of the "river of grass")

• The stakeholders are many

Proposals

• Multi-functionality of the agricultural entrepreneur. The opportunities offered by regional park,

PSR, European funds and by the NOP must be exploited: the projects must be integrated across multiple

lines of financing (mainly PON and in agreement with the neighboring Regions)

• In concession areas, current agricultural practices (e.g. plowing, crop basis) must be oriented

towards the protection and preservation of the landscape (eg through the provision of incentives and

the concession of the areas of the tratturo). At the end of the "avenue armentizio", which now appears to

be largely illegally occupied by frontists resulting in compromised of continuity and readability of the

tratturo, the chaotic turf should be restored. The granting of the concession to farmers could be

conditioned with the commitment to act in order to safeguard the legibility of tratturo (e.g. through

plants and, in the case of use of arable land, respecting the direction of plowing parallel to the

longitudinal axis of the tratturo). Such a condition would be compensated, for example, with the

possibility of access to the benefits of the RDP, extended not only to the owners of the funds, but also to

those having non-ownership title to lead the funds, thus including tenants and licensees.

• Markets of close proximity

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RECUPERO E VALORIZZAZIONE DEL TRATTURO PESCASSEROLI - CANDELA

AZIONE: 1) Indire la "Giornata nazionale dei Tratturi" - Con un sistema comunicativo che inizi dalle Regioni coinvolte e veda i Comuni lungo il Pescasseroli - Candela in prima fila a pubblicizzare l'evento con l'interessamento delle Associazioni e delle scuole che svolgano un "tema/ricerca" relativo alla cultura-storia che i tratturi hanno lasciato alle nostre generazioni; 2) Nello stesso momento, in tutti gli eventi organizzati, si dà il via al percorso al suono di una "campana" simbolicamente indicata in quella di Agnone; 3) Ogni Comune attraversato accoglie i camminatori con un "semplicissimo e pastorale rinfresco" in un festoso attraversamento del centro abitato; 4) Arrivo al termine di ogni percorso con semplice manifestazione a sfondo pastorale.

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Gruppi Regionali di: Abruzzo Molise

Campania Puglia

Sezioni coinvolte: Pescasseroli

Castel di Sangro Isernia

Campobasso Benevento

Avellino Foggia

Associazioni sportive di Cavalieri e Bikers

Associazioni coinvolte: Proloco, ………………….

A M M I N I S T R A Z I O N I P U B B L I C H E

Regione Provincia Comune

ABRUZZO

L'Aquila

Pescasseroli Opi

Civitella Alfedena Villetta Barrea

Barrea Alfedena

Scontrone Castel di Sangro

MOLISE

Isernia

Rionero Sannitico Forlì del Sannio

Isernia Pettoranello del Molise

Castel Petroso Santa Maria del Molise Cantalupo del Sannio

Campobasso

San Massimo Bojano

San Polo Matese Campochiaro Guardiaregia

Sepino

CAMPANIA

Benevento

Morcone Santa Croce del Sannio

Circello Reino

Pesco Sannita San Marco dei Cavoti San Giorgio la Molara

Buonalbergo

Avellino

Casalbore Montecalvo Irpino

Ariano Irpino Villanova del Battista

Zungoli

PUGLIA Foggia

Monteleone di Puglia Anzano di Puglia

Sant'Agata di Puglia Rocchetta Sant'Antonio

Candela

Criticità da affrontare Non vi sono particolari criticità al momento: tutte le Sezioni CAI coinvolte dovranno individuare, con la collaborazione degli uffici comunali competenti, il/i tratto/i ragionevolmente lungo/hi (10 – 15 km) già percorribile/i

Possibili soluzioni


Possibili effetti positivi o negativi

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