DOCUMENTI GEOGRAFICI - N. 2 (2013)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Articoli

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The “Via degli Abruzzi”. a key route to local development. – The renewed attention paid by Institutions, public authorities and scholars to main historical routes as well as their more serious consideration of rural areas’ development suggest the author to focus his interest on the ancient route of the “Via degli Abruzzi”, which played a crucial role for several centuries for religious, cultural and most importantly commercial purposes, connecting Central and Northern Italy to Southern Italy. This paper aims not only to discover again such a history, but also to let re-emerge nowadays a network of potential relationships and a renewed interest in the areas covered by this communication route, by stimulating new cultural tourism flows which could travel through this route again, and even envisaging a possible institutionalisation of its itinerary, for a more varied and efficient use of its environmental and cultural resources.

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New rurality and geographic food. A "filosofale" formula  for Abruzzo. – Geographic food is an expression that indicates the deep relationships between territory and eating costums. More precisely, in regard to the current post-modernity, it defines the need of recovering the cultural identities in the sphere of the concepts of place and collective tradition. Such need, which derives in a reactive way from the tendencies of uniformity produced by the mass consumption, can be considered always more as the way of escape deriving from the bottom that works against the processes of globalization and industrialization of the cultural products. Including those related to the field of food and eating customs.
In Abruzzo, the places of contemporary rural context do not seem to escape from such phenomenon. It is clearly proved by the rediscovery of old culinary habits in relation to the farming and pastoral past, the recovery of the agricultural biodiversity, the commercial achievement of local and traditional products, which is noticeably manifested through the country festivals, the proliferation of the country style wine and food places and the increasing diffusion of the farm holiday procedures. 

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La Via degli Abruzzi: old routes to new territories. – The contribution aims to consider the Via degli Abruzzi, if supported, as a picture and as an input for the assertion of original territoriality from the extraordinary values that has accumulated and articulated over time, will work as a specific brand of network. A project of renewed fruition of the Via of Abbruzzi, to promote attractiveness of the region, through magnifying glass bet on the  territory of Aquila as a critic subject that  still living events of deterritorialization far from being resolved, also the bearer of the instances of some territories in difficulty, not only local or regional.

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Nell’ambito di una rilettura del rapporto città-campagna chiamato  oggi a sconfessare posizioni contrappositive per aderire ad una visione e programmazione territoriale integrata, il presente contributo si propone di ripercorrere il rapporto città-campagna costruito dalla città abruzzesi di L’Aquila e Sulmona.In particolare, si sottolineerà il ruolo della posizione delle due città di Conca intermontana poste lungo la storica “Via degli Abruzzi” che può annoverarsi, senz’altro, tra i grandi itinerari commerciali, diplomatici, culturali e militari dell’Italia trecentesca.

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La riscoperta del patrimonio culturale, sia materiale che immateriale, di un contesto di montagna può essere la chiave per una crescita economica e sociale, soprattutto delle aree depresse, che stanno vivendo un'emorragia demografica a causa della marginalizzazione degli ultimi decenni, con conseguente de-territorializzazione.In questo articolo si cerca di dare qualche esempio di valorizzazione e di riscoperta di luoghi e pratiche del passato, ritenute molto interessanti anche ai fini di un rilancio turistico.

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The Grand Tour in France of a young florentine. Politics, philosophy, curiosity. – The study describes the trip of Bartolomeo Corsini and his brother through France, in order to explain to their father and uncle the relationships between State and French Church, during the half XVII° century. The source of information is an important correspondence between Bartolomeo and its relatives, preserved in an italian Library “Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e  Corsiniana”.