Ville Venete, una risorsa per lo sviluppo culturale ed economico del territorio

The Italian artistic and historical buildings constitute an architectural heritage to be preserved and valued. Among them, the Venetian Villas deserve a special attention as they represent an authentic, unitary and diffused “territorial system” reflecting the Venetian farming economy during the 16th-18th centuries. The opening words of the “Cultural and landscape Property Code” contain an important principle which - in many respects - renders the right interpretation to the definitions of cultural heritage preservation and enhancement. According to the 1st article, amended by the Legislative Decree n. 62 of year 2008, the activities concerning the heritage conservation, use and enhancement shall be performed in accordance with the applicable regulations, with the aim of emphasizing the presence of a Gordian knot behind the various subjects. In other words, the respect of such regulations becomes a necessary condition for performing all the possible and compatible activities of heritage management, use and enhancement. This section is aiming to describe and define, with the help of practical examples in compliance with current norms, some enhancement instruments guaranteeing the establishment of a dynamic and never static or binding protection able to convert the cultural heritage into an economic resource, and in the meantime promote a correct and necessary requalification.