New Recreational Uses along the Inherited Landscape of Venice’s Historic Waterways

How is it possible to re-evaluate and revitalize the abandoned heritage of Venice’s historic inland waterways?

Out of more than 30 million tourist visiting Venice every year, only a limited number know that the historic city of Venice is not located on the seaside, but in the fragile environment of a coastal Lagoon. What is more, while the image of Venice is always associated to developing maritime trades eastward, only few people know that Venice has spent for centuries enormous amount of money to “design” its hydraulic landscape westward.

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1. New Recreational Uses along the Inherited Landscape of Venice’s Historic Waterways. The App Tagliamento, Bacchiglione, Euganean Hills and Delta Po (Italy) World Canal Conference – Inverness, September 2016 Eriberto Eulisse Ca’ Foscari Venice University and Civiltà dell’Acqua (Italy)
2. 2 1. The Venice’s historic waterway system: an introduction 2. The monumental heritage and the inherited water-scapes 3. How to revitalize the hydraulic cultural heritage through new communication strategies: the project “Exploring Canals”
3. Historic maps help us to understand the cultural representations related to waterway systems
4. 1201 1184 Bisatto Canal Battaglia Canal Bacchiglione (river) Piovego canal 1209
5. Venice Region (Italy): an updated representation of western waterways
6. The inherited landscape: famous Venetian waterways Riviera del Brenta Palladio's architectures
7. Canale Battaglia (1189-1201) Connecting the Euganean hills to Padova & to Venice
8. 8 From the Middle Ages, the making of an artificial canal system suitable for inland navigation favored the expansion of urban centres like Padova and Vicenza to develop trade to/from Venice. Canals as tools to control recurrent floods and develop a “Holy Agriculture”. From this period on: “construction” of urban and rural landscapes
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 A HERITAGE IN DANGER OF DISAPPEARING
 Minor waterways heritage: historic canals as repository of cultural, social, archaeological heritage 
 (+ including traditional wooden boats and the INTANGIBLE HERITAGE): 

13. Simon Schama (Landscape Memory, 1995): waterways' systems are a unique encapsulation of memories and scenarios resulting from the constant interaction between human activity and natural conditions, to the point that they offer one of the most recurrent iconic themes in both landscape painting and literature Catajo castle, Battaglia Terme (Padova)
14. The inherited Water-scapes: 
 a new category for 
 UNESCO’s Cultural Heritage ? ➢UNIQUE AESTHETIC AND SCENIC VALUE of: ➢Historic bridges, river ports, systems of locks, docks, ancient hydraulic factories (water mills, forges…), warehouses, traditional residences Most of Venetian INLAND waterscapes are today in a state of abandonment
15. - For recovering the identity of local communities - For the sustainable development of territories RURAL TOURISM as an OPPORTUNITY
16. An App project to enhance “slow” mobility: itineraries on foot or by boat, canoe, byke, horses… Outdoors activities Local Produce NATURE AND CULTURE RURAL TOURISM
17. Manca una visione sul turismo fluviale? The project “Exploring Canals”: n.4 APPs for Smartphones and Tablets
18. The APPs
22. Aspetti ricreativi e turismo esperienziale
23. Litoranea Veneta
24. The Delta and its lagoons
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