12 articles in this issue
Fiorella Dallari,Alessia Mariotti
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Mª Ines Gusmán Correia,Lucrezia Lopez,Rubén C. Lois González,Xosé M. Santos
The pilgrimage route to St James is one of the oldest religious itineraries. The Camino (Way) came into being as a major pilgrim route in the Middle Ages. Although, in later centuries, it saw long periods of neglect, in the last fifty years, its potential... see more
Anna Trono,Francesca Ruppi,Fabio Mitrotti,Stefano Cortese
The essay presents the results of a 10-year archival and on-field study, carried out by a research group (bringing together archaeologists, geographers, medieval historians and art historians) of the Department of Cultural Heritage of the Salento Universi... see more
Chiara Serenelli,Serena Savelli,Maria Teresa Idone,Lucio L. Pettine
The essay investigates the opportunities generated by recovering a European Pilgrimage Route’s pathway as device for landscape perception and territorial analysis. It is focused on a project conducted by Verdiana Network in collaboration with the Municipa... see more
Antonella Palumbo
The project wants to explicate in a generic way the importance of the two sacred and charismatic medieval characters such as the figure of Saint James of the Greater from Santiago de Compostela from Spain and Saint Michael Archangel from Monte Sant'Angelo... see more
Alexander Behrendt
Throughout that work the differences and similarities of princely and non-princely, but noble, pilgrimages in the German-speaking part of the late medieval times should be outlined with the aid of two concrete examples. The main focus will be on the disti... see more
Gian Luigi Corinto
The paper reports results from an explorative research on the socio-economic opportunity that the presence of pilgrims and tourists along the Tuscan section of the Via Francigena can be for local communities. The aim is to deepen the actual and future opp... see more
Elisa Magnani,Filippo Pistocchi
Mysterious and fascinating figures – a light that brightens the land where it meets the sea – lighthouses have always played a vital role not only in drawing the line of the coast, but also in creating the social and cultural identity of those people who ... see more
Gianluca Bambi,Simona Iacobelli
Tourism along the Via Francigena is a growing phenomenon. It is important to develop a direct survey of path’s users (pilgrims, tourists travel, day-trippers, etc.) able to define user’s profiles, phenomenon extent, and its evolution over time. This in or... see more
Gianluigi Di Giangirolamo
The aim of this paper is to investigate how cultural policies developed in Italy. In particular the attention is focused especially on the development of public policies between the Sixties and the first half of the Seventies. This period can be defined a... see more
Raffaella Senesi
Sofia Nannini