The VITOUR landscapes project follows a first project (July 2005 to December 2007) in which the Loire Valley was the leading figure: Mission Val de Loire, in partnership with Interloire, the Loire wines inter-professional body.
The first project, developed with
European INTERREG IIIc funding, focused on enhancing winemaking
landscapes by developing cultural wine tourism. It led to the
signature of the
International
Declaration of World Heritage Vineyards
which founded the international VITOUR network and committed
the seven partner sites and their regions to bringing the network
to life.
For the new project,
the partnership has been extended to 11 partners with the
addition of:
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Le Syndic de Chexbres
(Lavaux, Switzerland)
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The Town of Montalcino
(Italy)
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The Azores Region (Pico Island -
Portugal)
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The Lower Austria Region (Wachau,
Austria)
An international consultant,
Stephan Moritz, has been appointed to produce the candidacy
dossier in collaboration with Karine Kubler, an independent
landscape architect, responsible for development issues at the
Upper Middle Rhine Valley (Rhine Gorge) site, Claudia Schwarz,
Director of the site's UNESCO House and Thomas Jhost, Regional
Director of Tourism.
The project comes under priority 2
for INTERREG IVc funding: "the environment and risk
prevention".
The expected results:
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Area 1: collecting, analysing and
preparing to
transfer best practices to other partner sites in the
areas of effective protection and the innovative improvement of
cultural winegrowing landscapes.
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Area 2:
Communicating best practices to local and regional actors
and to residents, visitors and companies.
Project components:
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Component 1: project
management;
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Component 2: publication of
results;
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Component 3: sharing
experiences;
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Component 4: pilot
initiatives.
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