Open Call for Applications to Citizens, NGOs & Public Institutions
to be part of the “Saint Michael Way – Rural Territories and Ancestral Cultures”, a project aimed to promote a new interpretation of European rural territories from an Afro-Eurasian and Transatlantic perspective.
A project to be presented for Certification as a “Cultural Route of the Council of Europe” to the Executive Secretary of the Enlarged Partial Agreement (EPA) on Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe (CoE) under regular certification cycle evaluation process as posted on the web https://www.coe.int/en/web/cultural-routes/home.
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The “Comitato Promotore San Michele Cammino di Cammini” is an Italian network connecting hundreds of citizens, scholars, operators of territorial organizations, associations, museum institutions, LAGs, and communities, that are jointly promoting since 2019 a project – already recognized by the Ministry of Tourism of the Italian Republic – that aims to establish a historical route connecting Ireland and the North Atlantic region to the Holy Land, identifying seven prestigious monuments along the straight line that evokes the legend of the “sword of Archangel Michael”.
In collaboration with the research network “Transhumance Trails & Rural Roads. A European network of traditional itineraries”, the “Comitato Promotore San Michele Cammino di Cammini” intends, with this Open Call for Applications, to create a international touristic and cultural network that connects the central route of Saint Michael Way with the itineraries reaching it from various directions.
The project aims to promote the narration, interpretation, and preservation of the extraordinary texture and variety of the rural traditions of peasant Europe, focusing on places historically related to the cult of Archangel Michael, venerated in the three monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
A precise choice of project freedom envisions the possibility that the Way, like a watercourse, becomes “navigable also in its tributaries”, so that not only the characteristics of the territories crossed by the traditional main line but also those of less proximate, and even distant areas, can be explored and narrated with digital technologies to hikers, visitors, and particularly to young people and school students. The promoters, in fact, believe in the idea that only living the European Heritage in an inclusive way and together with the local communities that produced that Heritage, we can guarantee to this Heritage a correct interpretation and a real “preservation” to future generation according to the values of the Council of Europe.
At the end, the project will produce a sort of virtual, thematic museum, which retraces Europe’s peasant and rural history that left an extraordinary, “healthy”, and “memory-rich communities” of Tangible and Intangible Heritage.