Politiche culturali e territoriali per il verde storico nelle Carte di Firenze. L’Atlante dei giardini storici della Liguria e il turismo culturale.

The first part of the contribution examines articles 5 and 14 of the Icomos-IFLA Charter on the enhancement of historic gardens, as rare resources for cultural tourism in landscape and physical planning because they are keys to understand the identity values of the vernacular culture and of cultural élites. The interest of local populations is manifested in the commitment of cultural associations to solicit institutions for conservation in a collective and continuous creative process in which numerous subjects participate. In the urban suburbs the historic gardens preserved are qualifying elements of contemporary landscapes and engines of development of urban regeneration in which conservation and innovation are integrated. Art. 14 today requires the necessary compromises to meet the conservation challenges caused by the physical and chemical changes of the soils, the spread of plant diseases and invasive species, extreme weather events and the aging of the tree heritage. The second part briefly describes the method of investigation of the research project “Atlas of historic gardens of Liguria” developed by a group of teachers and landscape architects graduated from the University of Genoa to identify the characteristics of the local landscape systems of gardens, accompanied by from the census of two hundred gardens, from the identification of thirty types, biographies and the glossary of dialectal words.