Mission 1 – Component 3 – Investment 2.3 – Programmes to promote the identity of places: historic parks and gardens

Programmes designed to enhance the identity of places aim to help improve the quality of life by drawing on cultural heritage and, in particular, by promoting a wide-ranging programme of regeneration of historic parks and gardens as centres of ‘public beauty’, places that define the identity of urban communities and as key factors in urban regeneration processes. At the same time, they seek to foster a renewed awareness of the environment and the landscape, and to ensure that historic gardens and parks serve as a resource in terms of scientific, technical, botanical and environmental knowledge.