TRENTO (ITALPRESS) – Emphasis on the great value of the Immaterial Cultural Heritage: rites, carnivals, re-enactments, typical products, festivals and events that make Italy unique and rich in every region, corner and small center. This is the main objective of the event “The heritage that lives”, organized by the Trentino Federation Pro Loco and Fondazione Pro Loco Italia on the weekend in Trento.
In two significant spaces of the city, on Saturday in the Marangonerie Hall of the Buonconsiglio Castle and on Sunday in the Falconetto Hall of Palazzo Geremia, tables of work were organized with the presence of national experts who have succeeded on topics concerning the Immaterial Cultural Heritage, richness that must be valued, preserved, narrated and preserved.
Present are the president of Fondazione Pro Loco Italia and president of UNPLI, Antonino La Spina, the vice president of Fondazione Pro Loco Italia and president of the Trentino Pro Loco Federation, Monica Viola welcomed by numerous local authorities. Among the speakers, Leandro Ventura, Director of the Central Institute for Heritage, Vincenzo Santoro, Head of the Department of Culture, Tourism and Agriculture of the Anci, Armando Tomasi, Director of the METS (Ethnographic Museum of Trentino), the anthropologist Nicola Martellozzo, Irene Fratton, of the Cultural Institute Mocheno and Gabriele Sepio, jurist expert of the Third Sector.
Also present is the conductor Adriana Volpe – face of the new RAI format that tells the territories “Linea Verde Tradizioni”, realized in collaboration with UNPLI that has brought his testimony on how important it is to tell the peculiarities of the small centers, to emphasize the local typicalities and to preserve the culture of the territories in every part of Italy. The event was also an opportunity to attend the exhibition of two examples of Immaterial Cultural Heritage: the choir Trentino voices and a representation of the Carnival of Valfloriana.
Antonino La Spina, president of Fondazione Pro Loco Italia, emphasizes that “the heritage that lives organized in Trento was a profitable moment of comparison with institutions, companies and above all a way to tell and value once again the great work that the Pro Loco do on the territories. The event was also an opportunity to point out the results until now obtained with the Census of the Immaterial Cultural Heritage and the portal Radici Culturali that has reached the threshold of more than 20 thousand censused elements. An endless work that grows thanks to the contribution of the Pro Loco and that represents the flagship project of the Pro Loco Italia Foundation”.
For Monica Viola, president of the Trentino Pro Loco Federation: “It was a pride as a Federation pro site to host this appointment, we are pleased to have managed to have involved high-level speakers who have brought stimuli that will surely enrich the motivations of our doing.”.
The event has shown involvement and closeness to the local institutions that have emphasized the great work done by the Pro Loco for the revitalization and promotion of the territory.
According to Claudio Soini, president of the Provincial Council: “ Trentino has an intangible rich heritage, which is the same material heritage. In this juncture, the activity of Pro Loco is fundamental to preserve these specificities: for this is great the value of this event that contributes to creating awareness in the public of the importance of their action in this.”.
Roberto Failoni, Provincial Councillor for Tourism, adds: “As a Province we will never stop underlining and renouncing the very important role of Pro Loco for tourism and for our communities to the point where we have allocated further funding for Pro Loco that organize large events of over-local importance. Often Pro Loco are considered only at the time of the Easter holidays, but they do much more and thanks to their work made of relations on the territory they provide a fundamental help to Trentino tourism. I thank the Federazione delle Pro loco trentine for the extraordinary work carried out to make understand the crucial role of the Pro loco within the tourist system of Trentino. If each actor contributes, we will be able to have a unique attraction in Italy. Thanks, therefore, to all the Pro Loco trentine and the many volunteers involved, more and more competent and, for their daily work, more and more like heroes.”.
The authorities present underlined how the value of Immaterial Cultural Heritage relates to deeply different areas: both tourism and economic, but above all social and relational, becoming a bridge between generations and tools for the creation of links for communities. Another aspect that has emerged is that the fragility of these fathers, often given for discounted by the same communities, needs an action of education and training.
The work of Fondazione Pro Loco Italia is part of this project, which is realized both on occasions like this two days, and in the work of Census of the Immaterial Cultural Heritage, which invites the public to help preserve these heritages through the online portal rootsculturali.it.
From Trentino, a region characterized by the widespread presence of patrimonies linked to specific territorial identities, therefore starts a path of awareness shared in order to involve the Pro Loco, the companies, the institutions and the general public in concrete actions of support of the projects proposed by the Fondazione Pro Loco Italia.
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