The Regional Conference gives the OK to the technical-economic feasibility project for the repair of the Cupi hiking refuge, located in the municipality of Visso (Macerata), among the Sibillini Mountains. The amount of the intervention, for which the Special Reconstruction Office plays the role of implementing body, is 2,015,000 euros.
«What will happen in Cupi is part of the perspective of recovery and development of naturalistic/hiking tourism in the area of the Sibillini Park affected by the earthquake – declares the 2016 Earthquake Commissioner’s Structure -. All this through the achievement of two macro-objectives: promoting reconstruction and combating ongoing depopulation and improving the reception service, with diversification and increase in accommodation capacity”.
This is why interventions are planned on two other structures located along the great Sibillini ring. Also in the planning phase are the Colle Le Cese refuge in Arquata del Tronto (estimated amount of 1.9 million), and Tribbio 2 in Fiastra, financed in total for 1.5 million.
The first objective of the Cupi refuge project is the seismic improvement of the entire structure, which remained unusable following the seismic events of 2016/2017.
Among the main actions planned, there are the demolition of the two existing staircases and the confinement walls with the simultaneous construction of a new steel staircase body and new floors in place of the voids left by the demolition of the stairs. Then, the reinforcement of the extrados of the floor slabs and the creation, at the floor level, of an external floor strip aimed at containing the out-of-plane overturning of the walls are planned.
The structural redevelopment will be accompanied by the improvement of the reception service, with diversification and increase in the accommodation capacity and accessibility to the refuge in all its functions (restaurant located on the ground floor, rooms on the upper floors and external spaces), and by energy efficiency of the building.
«We are also contributing – continues the commissioner’s office – to supporting the walks as a moment of experiential tourism aimed at creating the conditions for full tourist valorisation of the landscape and itineraries. In the Marche region, in particular, we have financed the Franciscan Way of the Marche, the Way of the Capuchins and the Way of Lauretano in the part of the seismic crater, for a total of almost 30 million.”
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