Cultural Itineraries Research Articles

INCLUSÃO DE ESTUDANTES COM DEFICIÊNCIA NOS JOGOS ESCOLARES DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL

The Jogos Escolares do Rio Grande do Sul (JERGS) are a school sporting event that has been part of the cultural itinerary of the state of Rio Grande do Sul since 1970, when it was created at the Secretaria da Educação e Cultura do Rio Grande do Sul (SEC). Currently, the event is aimed at students from the state's public network, at the municipal, state and federal levels. For many years, students with disabilities did not have an effective space in this school event, which, at times, greatly valued the participation of students with the “athlete” profile. Therefore, the research aims to understand the process of insertion and participation of students with disabilities in JERGS. To achieve this, we determined Cultural History as a theoretical and methodological matrix for research. To access the past about the historical conformations of JERGS, information was collected through documentary sources and digital sources. The collected sources were subjected to the document analysis technique, based on the recording, classification, analysis and cross-referencing procedures. After analyzing and interpreting the collected materials, we found that the JERGS began to include children and adolescents with disabilities in an effective and duly regulated manner from the 2017 edition onwards, the year following the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The holding of this mega sporting event in brazilian territory may have encouraged the JERGS organizing committee to include sports adapted for students with disabilities in the event's modalities, almost 50 years since its creation in the state. Received: 2024/04/04 Reformulated: 2024/06/03 Accepted: 2024/08/04

Digital reactivation of territories through geospatial cultural itineraries: the VIDA-HTL web application

The significant imbalances between human settlements and their surrounding environments, stemming from sector-specific policies and urban regional planning tools, constitute a primary factor in the resilience and responsiveness of territories in crisis scenarios. Within this context, the promotion of territorial heritage values emerges as a crucial means for the reactivation of vulnerable areas. Furthermore, the utilisation of technological resources, such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS), has proven to be highly effective in managing cultural landscape areas. This contribution aims to enhance the valorisation of territorial heritage through the geolocation of a system of architectural and archaeological assets of public interest, and by enabling the flexible design of cultural itineraries within the framework of slow tourism. For this purpose, a replicable methodology for the construction of a WebGIS application has been proposed. This methodology has been put into practice in the territorial area of the lower Guadalquivir River in Spain, which encompasses 73 municipalities and one UNESCO World Heritage Site, all interconnected by rural areas. A four-stage plan has been followed for the construction of the VIDA-HTL web application: (1) conceptualisation; (2) development; (3) technical verification; and (4) social viability. The fundamental approach of the web application is based on the comprehensive integration of subsystems related to cultural heritage on one hand, and to tourist and environmental services on the other. Two main functions for the exploration of cultural assets and designing cultural routes have been designed, which complement other capabilities implemented in the web application. As a result of a detailed standardisation process, 981 cultural assets and 43 supplementary data layers have been georeferenced and included in the web application, with customised itineraries available for planning within the study area. Additionally, 49 thematic cultural itineraries are proposed. Finally, the web application is complemented with the development of a collaborative hub, which encourages its use and enhances its capabilities. It is concluded that digital tools, such as that proposed, foster knowledge and valorisation of territorial cultural heritage, while contributing to greater local development. In this way, they function as a counterbalance to the development of metropolises and the global economy, thereby improving levels of regional resilience.

Cultural Itineraries Generated by Smart Data on the Web

The development of storage standards for databases of different natures and origins makes it possible to aggregate and interact with different data sources in order to obtain and show complex and thematic information to the end user. This article aims to analyze some possibilities opened up by new applications and hypothesize their possible developments. With this work, using the currently available Web technologies, we would like to verify the potential for the use of Linked Open Data in the world of WebGIS and illustrate an application that allows the user to interact with Linked Open Data through their representation on a map. Italy has an artistic and cultural heritage unique in the world and the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism has created and made freely available a dataset in Linked Open Data format that represents it. With the aim of enhancing and making this heritage more usable, the National Research Council (CNR) has created an application that presents this heritage via WebGIS on a map. Following criteria definable by the user, such as the duration, the subject of interest and the style of the trip, tourist itineraries are created through the places that host this heritage. New possibilities open up where the tools made available by the Web can be used together, according to pre-established sequences, to create completely new applications. This can be compared to the use of words, all known in themselves, which, according to pre-established sequences, allow us to create ever new texts.

Bar Semente (Rio de Janeiro) e Tejo Bar (Lisboa): assegurar a renovação de tradições culturais enraizadas

This article proposes a reflection on artistic-cultural entrepreneurship, the management of artistic (immaterial) and relational heritage in artistic and cultural entrepreneurship efforts, in particular, music. This study presents two cases: Bar Semente, born and developed in Rio de Janeiro's Lapa neighborhood, and Tejo Bar, from Lisbon's Alfama. Both music ventures are outside the mainstream cultural industry. Lapa and Alfama are territories of cultural heritage, historical and touristic regions. But it is not tourism that "creates" Lapa or Alfama. These places are rooted in the living memory of the city of Rio de Janeiro and Lisboa. For this reason, they also become cultural heritage and tourist attractions. But these roots are transient and can be destroyed by predatory tourist practices. This means that cultural heritage is not a guarantee of continuity. By applying a contemporary lens to the process of entrepreneurship, it was possible to gain insights about the situated music entrepreneurs in both cases who manage a relational and artistic (immaterial) heritage that projects the image and identity of a city to the world, including in tourist and cultural itineraries.

Towards an archaeology of everyday life in British Ionian Islands: the cultural itineraries of the Kythera Gin Bottles

SUMMARY During the course of the nineteenth century the island of Kythera, Southwest Greece, was part of the United States of Ionian Islands, under the control of the British empire. This paper explores the materiality of colonialism in local contexts, through the object itineraries of a group of stoneware bottles—a class of artefacts that continues to be represented in domestic assemblages locally today. We examine the diverse ways the vessels became entangled with the lives of individuals, colonialist agendas, and collective perceptions of identity, seeking to identify how the meanings associated with the objects and their relational connections shifted across time and space.

Itineraries of Medieval Slavic Legal Texts: Byzantine “Farmer’s Law” in Ms. Slav. 466 from Hilandar Monastery

The author aims to summarize, analyze, and supplement the knowledge about the Slavic copy of the Byzantine Farmer’s Law in Ms. Slav 466 from Hilandar monastery, second quarter of the 15th century. It has long been in the focus of Serbian philology and history of law. The current observations refer to the following spheres: the relationship between text and manuscript, the axiological significance of precedential texts in culture, the importance of this copy for Byzantine-Slavic interactions in the legal system, the uninterrupted cultural role of Holly Mountain’s monasteries for Eastern Christian culture. The Slavic copy of the “Farmer’s Law” in Hil. 466 is unique by structure and peculiarities. The manuscript testifies to the only known combination of the Farmer’s Law and the Prochiron in the South Slavic tradition. It is hypothesized that this combination was a conscious choice of the compilers of the collection influenced by tendencies in the post-Byzantine tradition. It corresponded to the strong anti-heretical line of the overall manuscript, inherited from the struggles against heresies on Mount Athos in the 14th century. The manuscript is a typical monastic miscellany. The linguistic nature of the “Farmer‘s Law” copy reveals its undoubted South-Slavic character, without russification, strongly influenced from the Greek protograph. Copy and translation may probably be of close chronology. Owing to being a precedential text, the Slavonic copy of the “Farmer’s Law” in Ms. Slav. 466 holds a special place in the attempts of reconstructing the stages and processes of reception of the Byzantine juridical legacy among South Slavs, of establishing the geographic-areal scope and the cultural itineraries of the spread of this text.

Reviving the Cultural Route and Its Role in the Sustainability of Historical Areas - Kerbala as a Case Study

Cultural heritage represents one of the most important resources for development processes, and cultural routes as cultural elements have the potential to revitalize and develop the historical area sustainably by stimulating cultural tourism. One aspect of cultural tourism is to provide cultural itineraries for visitors that enable them to explore the cultural heritage of the host region. The literature in this field has dealt with the potential of heritage in general in providing meaning and value to the environmental, and socio-economic aspects that form the foundations of sustainable development. This paper uses a multidisciplinary approach to study the possibility of designing and reviving cultural routes as catalysts for historical revitalization. Taking the Cultural Routes in (Karbala) as an example, the network and node perspective model are adopted to determine two historic tourism routes in this region. And it turns out that the preservation and protection policies for heritage must be integrated manner with the development processes, and to achieve a balance between the aspects of sustainable development and emphasize their interrelation and interaction with the historical environment.

Bysteel materializa gesto de sir Richard Rogers

Installed at Château La Coste near Aix-en-Provence, the work is “a meeting between art and science” It was 2011 when Sir Richard Rogers, Nobel Laureate in Architecture, was asked by his good friend — Paddy McKillen — to design an art gallery at his estate Château La Coste, a wine estate where besides an extensive vineyard there is a hotel (W*214), restaurants and a cultural itinerary with works by stratospheric artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Renzo Piano, Oscar Niemeyer, Tadao Ando among many others. The gallery would have to fulfill only two requirements: serve the purpose of an art gallery and provide a unique view of the estate and its surroundings. The idea took shape over the course of 10 years. The first step was to locate the place where the gallery could be installed. Still in 2011, during a weekend at Château La Coste, Richard Rogers and his wife took their bicycles and went for a ride around the estate.

Cannons for the Coast: Reading Seventeenth-Century Southeast Bengal from the Maldives Islands

Abstract Professor Shigeru Akita’s important publications focus on British imperial history and global history, and highlight his use of the copious colonial archives. While not denying the importance of colonial archives for scholars, this essay explores the role of precolonial archives in understanding the history of a person, place, or region, underlining the archives’ importance but also pointing to some of the difficulties associated with their use when southeast Bengal of the early seventeenth-century is the topic. Moving away from the dispatches, letters, and consultations that constitute the “reality” of colonial South Asia, and using early modern travel narratives and maps instead, it shows a different spatial othering that arises through a faulty understanding of the pulling forces of shared connections. Events demonstrate the influence of factors other than geographic proximity, and instead of emphasizing sovereign states, as does cartography, they reveal mnemonic commercial and cultural itineraries linking distant places such as the southeast Bengal-Arakan (Bangladesh-Myanmar) coast and the Maldives Islands.

Universities’ built heritage as a means to diversify urban tourist destinations’ cultural supply: the case of the University of Porto

Purpose This study aims to illustrate the potential of the many centuries-old universities buildings, in European cities, in a historical, architectural, aesthetic and symbolic dimension to diversify and differentiate urban tourist destinations supply. Design/methodology/approach This is a qualitative study supported by the analysis of public and classified documents, for which the main source is based on webography, and by conducting interviews. Findings The deficit of cultural tours, in the dimension of built heritage, is identified as one of the weaknesses of the city of Porto, as tourist destination, to be overcome. The interviewees are unanimous in recognizing the cultural, architectural and aesthetic impact of the historic buildings of the University of Porto, and most of them strongly agree with the integration of this legacy into the tourist offer of the city. The strategic sense of the heritage is emphasized, because of its location in charismatic areas of the city. The practice of effective networking, however, falls short of what is required to achieve ambitious and consistent objectives. Research limitations/implications The practice of effective networking, however, falls short of what is required to achieve ambitious and consistent objectives. Originality/value Emphasis is placed on the cities’ built heritage as a type of heritage that defines their uniqueness. The dissemination of cultural itineraries, which allows tourists and the community itself a broader and deeper cultural knowledge, contributes to the effective understanding of historic cities’ tourism. Given the scarcity of studies on the relationship between historic university buildings and tourism, the relevance of research focuses on highlighting the contribution of these cultural elements, through a network-based dynamic, to urban tourism destinations’ attractiveness. In particular, the University of Porto's potential for the integration of structured tourism products that contribute to the diversification and differentiation of the city of Porto as a destination is illustrated.

Distribution and molecular identification of Meloidogyne spp. associated with tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) cultivation in the Agro-ecological zone of the Guinean high savannah of Cameroon (Adamawa)

Meloidogyne represent a genus of plant-parasitic nematode. This nematode is serious crop pests, including tomatoes and is widespread in almost all regions of the world. Very little attention has been paid to these parasites in Cameroon and none in the agro-ecological zone of the Guinean high savannah. We therefore undertook this study to identify and assess the density of this nematode in this area. For this study, a total of 30 root samples were collected in tomatoes production areas from 4 districts and females Meloidogyne were isolated and counted. Specific identification was done by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) using the markers C2F3/1108 and COX1. The genus Meloidogyne was thus identified in the 30 production basin sites of this zone. High densities of Meloidogyne were observed in 18 sites, with an average density of between 21-50 females per gram of fresh root. In contrast, low densities were noted at 12 sites with values between 6 and 19 females per gram of root. However, this distribution is function of the cropping period, soil texture, pH, organic matter content, soil saturation rate, and cropping practices (host or non-host plants and fallow practice). Electrophoretic profiles of Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) amplified with C2F3/1108 and COX1 primers showed corresponding migrations at 1700 bp, 1100 bp and 421 bp characteristic of the presence of M. incognita/M. javanica, M. arenaria and M. incognita/M. hapla in this agro-ecological zone. In view of these results, which provide information on the distribution of Meloidogyne in this area, it seems necessary for producers to develop management strategies by improving preventive techniques and by piloting technical and cultural itineraries for the control of this plant pest.

La valorización turística de las áreas rurales y el papel del Atlas de los Caminos de Italia

The rural areas in Italy are made up of small municipalities that despite being extensive in area are sparsely populated. These marginal areas are affected by problems such as rural exodus, loss of tradi‑ tions, abandonment of the territory, etc. Despite this, in these small centers there is a rich cultural and environmental heritage that can be exploited to create new socio‑economic opportunities through tourism. Among the main tools used to achieve these goals are cultural itineraries. This article aims at analysing the potential of routes for the sustainable development of rural areas through the Digital Atlas of the paths of Italy. The methodology is based on the theory of the original Italian government programme and an in‑depth analysis of the Santa Barbara route, in Sardinia. This work confirms that itineraries are useful for rural areas development, if there are unified rules and if the ICTs are implemented.

Historical Cartography Analysis for a Design of Cultural Itineraries in the Lower Guadalquivir

Historical Cartography Analysis for a Design of Cultural Itineraries in the Lower Guadalquivir

The potential of defensive architectural heritage as a resource for proposing cultural itineraries

PurposeHeritage landmarks and historical values often coexist with places and regions of remarkable environmental and landscape wealth. This article studies their capacity to generate global understanding of their territory through the creation of cultural routes. The proposed methodology is verified through the study of the defensive features of the ancient Nasrid Kingdom, the last Islamic territory in the Iberian Peninsula from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century, which shaped the Spanish region known as the Kingdom of Granada until the nineteenth century.Design/methodology/approachTo assist in the proposal of new routes, a precise collection of physical data (topography, landmarks, resources, population centres …), existing public paths and protected natural sites was carried out. Those cultural routes relevant to the area of study were also selected and mapped through GIS. A set of indicators prioritised through an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) have evaluated the proposed itineraries.FindingsThe methodology enables the integral evaluation of parameters such as natural heritage, existing paths networks, defensive architectural heritage (watchtowers), existing cultural routes or proximity to basic services. The methodology's application allows an index to be obtained that quantifies the global implications of these parameters in the design of new itineraries. This leads to the development of a network with its own narrative that provides a historical, environmental and cultural meaning.Originality/valueWatchtowers in this region have previously been studied as isolated and locally relevant architectural features. This work studies them from an overall perspective, considering each tower as a piece of a complex defensive and territorial system. Cultural routes arise from this joint interpretation as tools to restore and highlight the interrelationship between architectural heritage and territory and people.

The Via Francigena del Sud: The value of pilgrimage routes in the development of inland areas. The state of the art of two emblematic cases

On October 18th, 2019, the European Vie Francigene Association (AEVF) unanimously approved the Via Francigena in southern Italy, from Rome to Santa Maria di Leuca. The new route enriches the historical cultural itinerary approved by the Council of Europe in 1994. Encompassing about 900 km of history, traditions and locations, the “Via Francigena del Sud” crosses five Italian regions. This paper focuses on the Via Francigena in Puglia and Campania, seen as an opportunity to conserve and enhance the regions’ cultural and landscape heritage and its enjoyment by tourists. Furthermore, it also aims to analyse the role of local businesses, communities and regional organisations in promoting the routes. Any project focusing onthe development and enhancement of a cultural itinerary in a rural space must be fully aware of the connections between places and networks of human relationships, and the “Via Francigena del Sud” seems to be no exception.

LE VIE CALABRESI: ITINERARI RELIGIOSI PER UNA GEOGRAFIA DEI CAMMINI

Calabrian ways: religious itinerary for Geography’s path. – In recent years, historical, religious, food and wine and cultural itineraries have become increas-ingly important for the discovery of Italian villages and landscapes: in constant growth is the interest in these tools of knowledge of the history and heritage of Italy. This work proposes the creation of geo-itineraries based on historical studies concerning the life of two Calabrian monks. The creation of these itineraries, through Gis technology, would lead to the enhancement of still little-known villages, belonging to the internal areas of Calabria, and, at the same time, the rediscovery of the relationship between the tourist and the landscape.

Opportunities and precautions in the implementation of GIS-based analysis tools to cultural landscape restoration

Opportunities and precautions in the implementation of GIS-based analysis tools to cultural landscape restoration

Territorial museification: fundamentals of a concept

The word “museification” has been used in the reflections of various disciplinary fields. It is a concept that has been little discussed and lacks epistemological clarity. Thus, this article presents a conceptual approach dedicated to understanding the process of museification, seeking a basis to formulate its definition and to enable territorial analysis. This was a qualitative research, with a case study in which eight processes of museification, identified in the conceptual foundation, are used in the analysis of the Caravaggio Circuit (Santa Teresa, ES, Brazil). The result demonstrates the true link between the museification of the territory and the cultural itineraries.

Museificação territorial: fundamentos de um conceito

A palavra “museificação” tem sido utilizada em reflexões de diversos campos disciplinares. Trata-se de concepção ainda pouco discutida, carente de clareza epistemológica. Assim, este artigo apresenta uma abordagem conceitual dedicada ao entendimento do processo de museificação, buscando embasamento para formular sua definição e viabilizar análises territoriais. Configura-se como pesquisa qualitativa, com estudo de caso no qual oito processos próprios da museificação, identificados na fundamentação conceitual, são usados na análise do Circuito Caravaggio (Santa Teresa, ES, Brasil). O resultado demonstra a vinculação real entre a museificação do território e os roteiros culturais.

O uso de ferramentas digitais na preservação da arte escultórica tumular

Cemitérios são espaços onde é possível identificar elementos culturais de uma sociedade, que se expressam pela arquitetura do túmulo e do paisagismo. Porém o distanciamento das pessoas destes locais os torna propícios para a ação dos vândalos. Logo, as necrópoles precisam ser incluídas em roteiros culturais nas cidades, além de serem instituídos programas de manutenção periódica e segurança nos túmulos, capelas e mausoléus. O objetivo deste estudo é apresentar duas formas de preservação do patrimônio cultural: a primeira consiste na identificação das principais manifestações patológicas que danificam as esculturas, com a confecção dos mapas de danos; e a segunda, no levantamento das características físicas das peças, de modo a documentar suas formas, cores, texturas e volumetria. Para ambas as propostas, utilizaram-se duas ferramentas digitais atuais: a fotogrametria e o escaneamento a laser. As obras estudadas são: Pietá (1929), do escultor Galileo Emendabili, localizada no Cemitério da Consolação em São Paulo e Último adeus (1945), de Alfredo Oliani, no Cemitério São Paulo, utilizando-se os softwares ReCap Photo, da Autodesk, e Trimble RealWorks, da empresa Trimble, para obtenção dos modelos tridimensionais das obras escultóricas. Constatou-se que para a utilização destas tecnologias é necessário planejamento prévio para o levantamentodos dados, principalmente devido às interferências climáticas e de localização das obras. As ferramentas utilizadas foram eficientes quanto à caracterização formal das obras e podem ser utilizadas para a preservação conceitual e material da peça.