Tutelare le pratiche agricole eroiche. Il ruolo del paesaggio e del progetto

The interest shown by the new Common Agricultural Policy and by the last cultural and normative European tendencies to the «landscape», introduces new possibilities to save the heroic agriculture and traditional rural areas. A new meaning for landscape has come into our lives; it changed from a mere material support of agricultural activities to an important potential economic resource. The landscape is a very useful tool to spread the knowledge of traditional agricultural acts, to strengthen the relationship between food and territory, to attract cultural tourism in marginal areas. On this way, the architectural and landscape project gets a regenerated and vital role, interpreting the grammar, textures, and ordinances, signs of the ancient agricultural and social practices, to rebuild, strengthen or promote the identity of places. The cultural itinerary Strada dalla vite ad alberello in Pantelleria is an example of this hoped role of the project that started from a philological study of the terraced landscape in the Island and it takes shape to guide the reading and understanding of the site.