An accessible path between history and memory

The project proposes a renewed territorial use along the Sienese Via Francigena and promotes slow tourism, attentive to accessibility and the history of the place. The initiative is developed through interventions that integrate inclusiveness, service to wayfarers, and historical storytelling. The farmyard of Podere Casalino18 was restored, turning it into a rest and refreshment point for pilgrims and equipping it with an essential water point.

At the same time, a median slope path was built to ensure 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 section “Little 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 everyday farming life and the complex passage of the Second World War.

The implementation plan is made possible by financial support from the European Union under the NextGenerationEU program, specifically framed in the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRP) under Mission 1, Component 3 – Investment 2.2.