Enhancement of architecture and the rural landscape

It is intended to support projects for the restoration and enhancement of architectural and rural landscape heritage owned by private entities and the third sector, or in various capacities owned by them, to ensure that this heritage is preserved and made available to the public.
Projects will also be eligible if they involve publicly-owned architectural and rural landscape heritage assets, of which private individuals and the third sector have full access, with entitlements lasting at least five years following the administrative and accounting conclusion of the financed operation.

Buildings defined as "rural architecture" must be provided with a declaration of cultural interest by a corresponding ministerial decree pursuant to Legislative Decree no. 42/2004 or must have been built more than 70 years ago and be surveyed or classified by regional and municipal territorial and urban planning instruments. (ex art. 1, par. 5).

The following are eligible for intervention under this notice

1. artefacts used as rural dwellings or intended for activities functional to agriculture (farmhouses, 'masi', 'malghe' and 'caselli', mills, presses, rural schools, etc.) that have or have had a direct relationship or in any case a connection with the surrounding agricultural activity
2. artefacts that connote the organic link with the pertinent agricultural activity (barns, shelters, temporary shelters also in vegetated structures or in caves, sheds and deposits, stables, 'colombere' and 'toresele', dryers, ovens, wells, paving of residential or productive open spaces, fences and 'caesuras', historic rural roads preserving traditional paving, terracing containment systems and dry stone walls, hydraulic systems for channelling, irrigation and water supply, fountains, drinking troughs, bridges, milestones, sawmills and orchards with rare historic cultivars, etc.;
3. artefacts typical of the popular and religious traditions of rural communities (chapels, rural churches, votive shrines and crosses, surfaces bearing signs and graffiti signifying grazing areas, etc.), traditional trades connected with the life of rural communities, etc.

Go to the Council Resolution approving the call for proposals

Read the press release

Outcome of the call for intervention selection: with the determination of the Director of the Agriculture Service no. 12595 of 22 November 2022, the final list of applications eligible for funding was approved (no. 38 interventions for euro 4,693,882.01). For the applications included in the ranking list (from no. 39 to no. 61) but not eligible for financing due to lack of funds, the possibility of scrolling in order of position was foreseen in case further resources became available.

The following were approved by resolution

• the implementing provisions of Resolution No. 747 of 29 April 2022
• the fac simile of obligatory acts
• the forms for payment applications and the other fulfilments to be fulfilled by the beneficiary.

The Provincial Council also adopted with resolution no. 865 of 19 May 2023 the implementing provisions of the previous resolution no. 747 of 2022, as well as the fac simile of the obligation acts and the forms for the implementation of the investments.