Knowing how to read the landscape is the key to a quality analysis for a landscape architect. The act of reading includes people living in the landscape. The landscape architect acts as a reader and as a writer of stories that other actors play, with the task grasping the Genius loci, discovering the exceptional, but also describing the common. The contemporary history of Manarola, one of the 5 Terre, is to be told: it presents the risk of a rise of an economy based only on tourism and the need to preserve the historic landscape made up of dry stone walls, the majority being abandoned, that without the revenue of the tourism can not survive. The people of Manarola have a strong sense of collective identity and after the flood in 2011 spontaneously formed a foundation, imposing a minimum cost of registration, with the aim of defending the local landscape through constructive interaction between agriculture, nature and tourism. The Foundation now has over 200 members, the project area is about 10 hectares, of which the majority is at the west side called the '"amphitheater", with over 55.000 square meters of dry stone walls to safeguard. The aims of the Foundation are to redevelop the historic layered landscape, declared a World Heritage Site because it is testimony to the ancient relationship between man and landscape, but at the same time to generate innovative processes that allow this cultural landscape to adapt to the contemporary, without erasing the original character of the place. Among the traditional measures promoted by the Foundation include: - the census of cultivated and abandoned land, - the drafting of a reference map, - the reconstruction of the millennial uneven stone walls, - the cleaning of streams and historic trails. There are also innovative initiatives including the organization of courses on the implementation of the traditional walls for terraces and drafting 30-year agreements between landowners, members of the Foundation and farmers, who in exchange for the land being landscaped, profit from the cultivation of vines and olive trees, which have always been present, the production of wine and oil for small local wineries and for the sale of a quality product locally produced, improving the attraction for tourists. This type of activity is an innovation because it is a project of private initiative. Similar actions have also existed for a long time abroad, for example in France. However in France the activities are managed by public administration, not privately.
Manarola a narrative landscape
BURLANDO, PATRIZIA
2016-01-01
Abstract
Knowing how to read the landscape is the key to a quality analysis for a landscape architect. The act of reading includes people living in the landscape. The landscape architect acts as a reader and as a writer of stories that other actors play, with the task grasping the Genius loci, discovering the exceptional, but also describing the common. The contemporary history of Manarola, one of the 5 Terre, is to be told: it presents the risk of a rise of an economy based only on tourism and the need to preserve the historic landscape made up of dry stone walls, the majority being abandoned, that without the revenue of the tourism can not survive. The people of Manarola have a strong sense of collective identity and after the flood in 2011 spontaneously formed a foundation, imposing a minimum cost of registration, with the aim of defending the local landscape through constructive interaction between agriculture, nature and tourism. The Foundation now has over 200 members, the project area is about 10 hectares, of which the majority is at the west side called the '"amphitheater", with over 55.000 square meters of dry stone walls to safeguard. The aims of the Foundation are to redevelop the historic layered landscape, declared a World Heritage Site because it is testimony to the ancient relationship between man and landscape, but at the same time to generate innovative processes that allow this cultural landscape to adapt to the contemporary, without erasing the original character of the place. Among the traditional measures promoted by the Foundation include: - the census of cultivated and abandoned land, - the drafting of a reference map, - the reconstruction of the millennial uneven stone walls, - the cleaning of streams and historic trails. There are also innovative initiatives including the organization of courses on the implementation of the traditional walls for terraces and drafting 30-year agreements between landowners, members of the Foundation and farmers, who in exchange for the land being landscaped, profit from the cultivation of vines and olive trees, which have always been present, the production of wine and oil for small local wineries and for the sale of a quality product locally produced, improving the attraction for tourists. This type of activity is an innovation because it is a project of private initiative. Similar actions have also existed for a long time abroad, for example in France. However in France the activities are managed by public administration, not privately.
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