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ConValoRe

Preserving and Enhancing in the Rhaetian Common Space: Cultural Heritage and the Cultural Landscape of Valtellina and Valposchiavo in the UNESCO Context

Elisabetta ROSINA (docente coordinatore), Raffaella BRUMANA, Luigi BARAZZETTI, Daniela ORENI

Through conservation, management and sustainable enhancement activities, the project aims at promoting the attractiveness of Valtellina and Valposchiavo territories and their environmental and cultural resources. CONVALORE improves the historical, social and cultural links of the architectural and landscape heritage, with activities that favor a strategic vision of preventive and planned conservation with the most advanced techniques for diagnostics – design, restoration, maintenance and management in a long-term perspective. The four macro-objectives of the project are: knowledge (history, materials, construction techniques, context and correlation between assets); conservation (based on a systemic approach and long-term preservation); training (at all professional levels, to promote the recognition of the identity of the territory); valorization (cultural heritage and landscape as resources for social and economic development).

DABC role

• Buiding surveys and diagnostics (Tirano)
• Conservation plans
• Training of professionals and technicians on: planned conservation, structural monitoring, risk conditions
• Results dissemination (web and printing)
• Organization of conferences for professionals

Partners

Comune di Tirano (coordinator for Italy), Regione Bernina (coordinator for Switzerland), Università degli Studi di Milano, Società Patrimonio mondiale UNESCO delle Ferrovie Retiche, Comune di Sernio, Consorzio Turistico Media Valtellina, Intrecci Società Cooperativa Sociale, Direzione Regionale Musei Lombardia, Valposchiavo Turismo, Associazione San Romerio