Rural app. Per una valorizzazione innovativa dei paesaggi rurali storici: il territorio del Sannio

The following project has resulted from an “innovative PhD with industrial characterization” linked to MIUR “PON research and innovation 2014-2020” issued by the Department of Cultural Heritage Science of the University of Salerno. The project aims to reconstruct the historical, cultural and environmental processes of the territory and the Communities, contributing to develop its vocations and highlighting the added value linked to landscape and productive resources of internal and marginal areas. Despite the complexity expressed by the geographical conditions of the places and the relationships historically established between mankind and landscape, these territories have valuable resources and enormous unexpressed potentials. For these peculiarities, the internal areas are interesting places of experimentation for new development practices based on their cultural and natural heritage, valued in an innovative way. The project aims to implement an innovative procedure for the management, monitoring and interoperability of rural territories through a system which is built on the principles and methodologies of Social Innovation. The goal is to produce an information basis for diversified users, not only regarding scientific aspects but also from the knowledge management and communication perspectives. In fact, the technologies constitute important tools for the valorization and the use of Cultural Heritage which usually is widespread and not widely known. The research deals with the study of an area that occupies the southernmost portion of Samnium. In particular, the area of interest of the project includes the Caudina Valley, the Benevento valley and the eastern territories up to the border with the province of Avellino. This region has high landscape and historical-cultural potential that can address social regeneration and requalification. The historicalcultural identity of this context has its roots in the antiquity, thanks to her central position that certainly contributed to the luck of this portion of the Samnium the most: being a hinge between the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic side, a place of "frontier", a place of both encounter and clash of populations, open to various influences of cultural, commercial and economic nature. The collection of bibliographic and archival sources as well as the various studies carried out in the area have been useful in defining the settlement framework of this large area, from prehistoric to late antique age. .. [edited by Author]