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A project for the future of the village

Ideas and actions for living Pariana, today and tomorrow

The project idea was born from our “living and perceiving” Pariana, a beautiful village with social, cultural and economic potential, to which the population is proud to belong, inserted in the environment, rich in history, liveable (although with many difficulties due to the lack of services) and, therefore, from the rebellion against the idea that this community and this town must die slowly as is happening to much of the Tuscan mountains and the Province of Lucca.

Therefore, the basis of the Project Idea is the organized reaction to the depopulation and decline of our living community, activating and organizing the operational tools necessary for the recovery of Pariana.

  • Renovate the municipal building (former schools) in Pariana, in order to provide the town with a multipurpose center, as it will be called, which will provide various services such as a medical clinic, a small library, coworking spaces, a meeting space for the community, infotourism, a kitchen, a social space that will have to provide an essential service currently lacking in the town.

  • Make that multifunctional Center the House of the Community and Identity of Pariana as a public space that the population and its associations feel as their meeting place and that also contains the image of the memory of Pariana (for those who, as tourists, enter), with large banners on the walls (without taking up space) with B/W photos of the time, to be made with the Schools. In order to strengthen the local identity, the Community Map of Pariana will be created by the leading Municipality.

  • Make the multipurpose center an economic structure - which is missing today - and that can be functional to tourism initiatives (trails, workshops, summer camp, thematic educational camps, etc.) by creating a refreshment point (kitchen, bar area, shop), a smart working station, the Tourist Information Point and a reference point for those arriving in Pariana, from logistical information to package holding, to give examples.

  • Build a series of activities and opportunities for slow, experiential, environmental and cultural tourism such as hiking trails, visits to chestnut groves (identity), the educational camp for beekeeping, the educational farm, the summer camp.

  • Strengthen local agriculture by supporting existing agricultural activities and partners both in increasing agricultural production and in extra-agricultural activities with cultural, laboratory and environmental education events.

  • Animate the village with cultural activities, shows, sporting events (including the recovery of the Elastic Ball, to which a permanent exhibition will be dedicated in the village).

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