1.2 - INTERREG IIIB Alpine Space Programme

Aim
Le Vie dei Metalli - Iron Route aims at joining different and
far off Alpine realities (Southern Austria - Kärnten; Slovenia,
Carinthia and Upper Carniola - Bohinj, Regione Lombardia,
Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia, Regione Valle D’Aosta) which
have a past in common: they have been important centres for
mining, iron production, typical industrial region with coal-mining
and energetic in the Alpine Space area.
In many cases the breakdown and abandonment of these
mining areas cause serious social economic and environmental
problems since the majority of these centres were strongly
dependent on mining. The common features of these territories
are their setting in apparently poor mountain areas which,
instead, are rich in potentialities: they all need activities aimed
at finding new development opportunities to provide sustainable
and integrated development to solve their structural and
management problems through the promotion and valorisation
of the resources of the cultural and environmental heritage
of the mining areas.
Activities
The project will contribute to sustainable spatial development
of the Alpine Space promoting and exploiting the cultural and
environmental heritage of the mining areas through the development
of quality tourism: the creation of common tourist itineraries
will increase the number of tourist visits in the involved
areas, the reorganisation of existing museums, information
IRON ROUTE
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Le vie dei metalli – THE IRON ROUTE
The project aimed at revaluing old mining areas and valorising the resources of their cultural
and environmental heritage creating an Alpine Iron route network.
centres, tourist centres, and mining sites will contribute to
the economical and social welfare on regional scale promoting
new business activities at local and transnational level. It
will increase awareness and knowledge among the partners
building a stable transnational network.
STUDIES AND RESEARCH activities will define the best
research methods and ways of implementation aimed at
exploiting the local mining resources through the exchange
of experiences and good practices among partners and the
comparison and check of the researches’ results, of the information
gathered from field work and archives of the ancient
mining and archaeometallurgical evidence and excavations
and follow up.
FEASIBILITY PHASE will define effective methods to revalue
old mining areas: detection and feasibility analysis of touristcultural
itineraries connected to the mines; feasibility analysis
and business plans for the tourist and cultural management
of the mining sites; training packages for increasing the know
how of local people and cultural operators of the areas.
NETWORKING activities will set up new networks among institutional
authorities, private actors and local bodies.
PILOT ACTIONS will test the solutions/results defined in the
feasibility phase for the creation of the Iron Route including
the reorganisation of existing museums and local information
centres according to common standards and shared strategies
among the partners.
Outcomes and results
Multilingual web portal on the Alpine Iron Routes
Multilingual tourist/didactic guide on the Iron Route
Tourist/cultural/didactic itineraries on mining sites
Renewed mining museums and documentation centres
3 International Conferences
Promotional audio-video materials
Network of Alpine Iron Routes
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Lead partner
Cooperativa Leader Plus delle
Valli Seriana e di Scalve s.c.r.l.
Lead partner
Project partner
Other partners
C M Valle Trompia
Gorenjski Muzej
Marktgemeinde Hüttenberg
Podzemlje pece
Regione A. FVG
Regione A. Valle d´Aosta
Regione Lombardia
Univ. dell´Insubria
Project website
www.ironroute.org
Contact person
Barbara Grazzini
Tel +39 0347 18 30 519
Fax +39 002 700 389 83
info@ineuropa.info
viedeimetalli@libero.it
Duration
01.2005 – 12.2007
Total budget in EUR
1.758.240
ERDF in EUR
945.120
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environment and cultural heritage