An accessible path between history and memory

The project proposes a renewed territorial fruition along the Sienese Via Francigena and promotes a slow tourism, attentive to accessibility and the history of the place. The initiative is developed through interventions that integrate inclusivity, service to wayfarers and historical storytelling. The restoration of the farmyard was carried out of Podere Casalino18, transforming it into a rest and refreshment point for pilgrims, equipping it with an essential water point. At the same time, a mediated slope path which ensures full accessibility even for people with reduced mobility, connecting a section of the Francigena between the Pyramid of the Grand Duke and the Podere. Completing the project is the ” A short history of the Podere Casalino“, an installation that, via QR code, offers visitors the direct testimony of Lucesio Vanni, an inhabitant and former sharecropper of the farm, recalling anecdotes about the daily farming life and the complex passage of the Second World War. The implementation plan is made possible by the financial support of the European Union under the NextGenerationEU, framed specifically in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRP) Italian under the Mission 1, Component 3 – Investment 2.2