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The
“Travel of Transhumance” project took place from 2011 to 2014
with two events each year that aimed at developing a sustainable tourist
mobility in the area of Amatrice, province of Rieti, in the Central Italian
Apennines, inside the National Park of Gran Sasso and Laga Mountains. The project developped a seasonal ecotourism event in order to help to discover and to preserve the real traditional shepherd’s world, which through the history created the wealth of Amatrice and his 70 villages and which today is concealed behind the famous dish “Spaghetti all’Amatriciana”. The “Ecotourism” term was created on 1988 by the architect Hector Ceballos-Lascurain, meaning: “Ecotourism is that tourism that involves travelling to relatively undisturbed natural areas with the specific object of studying, admiring and enjoying the scenery and its wild plants and animals, as well as any existing cultural aspects (both past and present) found in these areas”. The Travel of Transhumance was promoted by the three farms: ANTONIO DI MARCO, STEFANIA DI GIAMMARCO, ANTONIO AURELI, helped by volunteers, associations and passionate peoples. They all together enabled to come over the many obstacles and difficulties of an experience which they repeated for three years in order to help Amatrice keeping and preserving its own roots in the future. The Travel of Transhumance purpose was to disseminate the whole richness of an historical tradition of the past in order to develop new respect and awareness on the importance of the Central Apennine environment, as it was created by the shepherds in thousands of years of history. It wished to be a sustainable event in order to develop all the production and services local chain systems linked to the shepherd’s world and his own typical and zero-mile agro-food traditions: milk, cheese, meat, sausages, wool, textiles, music, poetry, dance, history, culture, art and legend, oral tradition, past technologies, farming and historical reception, ….but specially landscape and biodiversity preservation. The action of The Travel of Transhumance
was inspired by the results of a paper of FAO organisation “Review
of evidence on drylands pastoral systems and climate change" (PDF
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The Travel of Transhumance event was supported by the European Project ECORUTOUR
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in the framework of the European Programme LIFE+ and was realised under the patronage of:
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ARSIAL - Latium Regional Agency for Agriculture Development and Innovation
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Province of Rieti - Tourism Department
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Rieti Trade Board
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Gran Sasso & Laga Mountains National Park
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Amatrice Municipality
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Club Alpino Italiano - Amatrice section
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Associazione Nazionale Alpini & Civil Protection - Amatrice section
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Amatrice Proloco
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Cola dell'Amatrice Cultural Association
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F.lli Berardi Slow Food
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Nero Sabino
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Wigwam Association
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Tourist organisation of The Travel of Transhumance is carried out by: Reate Tour
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