There are 600 historic gardens in Emilia-Romagna which will be included in the specific national catalog created with the aim of safeguarding and enhancing their presence in the territory, also to guide future study actions and landscape planning activities. Without neglecting the measures intended to ensure the best possible conservation, given their structural fragility due to climate change. To this end, the Regional Council, on the proposal of the Department of Culture and Landscape, approved the draft agreement with the MIC (Ministry of Culture) relating to the cataloging of historic parks and gardens in Emilia-Romagna, financed with 180 thousand euros from the Pnrr.
The overall project involves all the Italian Regions and autonomous Provinces for a total of 3 million euros and aims to launch a process aimed at identifying, quantifying and describing historic parks and gardens, as well as cataloging them, in order to guarantee a more effective knowledge, protection and valorisation, encouraging the implementation of the General Catalog of Cultural Heritage.
In 1981 the Florence Charter of Historic Gardens recognized these realities as having a very specific qualification in the field of cultural heritage. Referring to the inspiring principles of the Venice Charter, the garden is considered a “monument”, whose component is predominantly vegetal, therefore “living”, and as such subject to deterioration and renewal. The garden “is of public interest” and is the result of a balance “in the cyclical progression of the seasons, between the development and deterioration of nature and the desire for art and artifice which tends to perpetually preserve its state”. And it is at the same time “testimony of a culture, of a style, of an era”.
To create the Catalogue, parks and gardens, both public and private, will be taken into consideration. which are of interest from a historical, artistic, architectural, botanical and landscape perspective, not necessarily equipped with a protection provision.
