Patrimonio storico e ambientale: valorizzazione, fruizione e prospettive di gestione

The coastal landscape of the Roman Littoral, characterised by its ancient towers and the pattern of agricultural use, does not end at the coastline but develops along a parallel articulated ecological-environmental and infrastructural system, on which a strong settlement growth has proliferated in recent decades. While this has led to rapid demographic growth, it has also weakened the attractiveness of this historical and environmental heritage, also in terms of tourism. In 2020, the adoption of the Roman Littoral Reserve Management Plan relaunched the sustainable promotion of its territory as a central issue for its protection and development. In fact, the territory of the Reserve, consisting of a mosaic of natural environments of great value, preserves intact the characteristics of the agrarian and reclamation landscape, overlaid by the network of rural villages. The interpretation of this context, in systemic terms, is able to propose integrated ways of use, considering the landscape as a functional node and environmental infrastructure to respond to the environmental and socio-economic challenges. A complex and integrated valorization of the specificities of the landscape and of its fruition that gives space to a new culture of the project, in which the coastal environment becomes, through new management methods, a place for the production of inclusion and territorial welfare