He does so with the desire to put things right, with a spirit of conservation and landscape protection. Where does it land? In Southern Italy, where his certifications over the last twenty years have already generated income, work and business. That South theater of dominations, invasions, annexations, unfortunately today a sick horizon, with little protection, with little money. A summa annoying that stimulated the UN organization to launch the "Unesco Sites Network" project. The main money comes from the Ministry of Cultural Heritage in collaboration with the Unesco Southern Italy Provinces Association and other entities that are about to arrive.
A grant of 1 million and 80 thousand euros, to be spent on 14 World Heritage sites. However, the beneficiary local authorities will have to demonstrate that they know how to seize this good opportunity. At least for one main reason: tourists have returned to visit the southern locations and those who experience the daily life of these territories must live up to the welcome. Which is a long-lasting challenge, not to be treated with the rhetoric of circumstance, which can only be good for development and the economy. The places involved in the Project are the Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera, the Amalfi Coast, the Park of Cilento and Vallo di Diano, the archaeological sites of Paestum, Velia and the Certosa di Padula, the monumental complex of Santa Sofia, the Royal Palace of Caserta and its park, the Vanvitelli aqueduct and the complex of San Leucio, Arab-Norman Palermo, the cathedrals of Cefalù, Monreale, Syracuse, the rocky necropolis of Pantalica, the Val di Noto, Piazza Armerina, the Archaeological area of Nuraxi di Barumini, the trulli of Alberobello, Castel del Monte, the Gargano sanctuary of San Michele in Monte Sant'Angelo and the Umbra Forest.
This was discussed in Matera, capital of culture 2019, because from here we wanted to launch a strong appeal to Europe above all. All of Southern Italy is steeped in the traditions and culture of the old and torn continent. The promoters of the project also presented us with the new internet portal and a dedicated app. Something that has to do with the ancestors, with the troglodytes of the Basilicata caves. They certainly could not have imagined that posterity would see their places in 3D by typing on a smartphone. But history bears witness to time, until it discovers that in medieval Britain, the monk Bede already wrote "Of the art of calculating or the language of the fingers" (De computo vel loquela digitorum). The Benedictine is nothing but a forerunner of Steve Jobs and his followers, thanks to whom we can choose where and what to visit with our cell phone. Unesco provides us with IT platforms for virtual tours and seductive itineraries. But then he also thought about promoting competition between the places on the list, with a Festival until September stimulating the supremacy of one site – Sicilian, Campanian, Sardinian – over the other and all for the best preservation of history.
