NRP (M1C3) Enhancement of architecture and the rural landscape

The intervention aims to preserve rural and historical landscapes through the protection of tangible and intangible cultural assets and the promotion of initiatives and activities linked to sustainable tourist-cultural fruition, giving value to local traditions and culture.

It is intended to support projects for the restoration and enhancement of rural architectural and landscape heritage owned by private and third sector entities, 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 they 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 to mark pasture areas, etc.), traditional trades connected with the life of rural communities, etc.
4. Operations concerning assets located in built-up areas are not eligible.

Operations concerning assets located in built-up areas are not eligible.

The contribution is granted up to a maximum of €150,000.00 as co-financing at a rate of 80%. the contribution is increased to 100% if the asset is declared to be of cultural interest, subject to a maximum threshold of €150,000.00.

The assets subject to the intervention must be made available for public use for a congruous period of time equal to at least 5 years following the administrative and accounting conclusion of the financed operation, maintaining the destination constraints for a similar duration.

Funding applications are submitted by natural persons and private for-profit and non-profit entities, including civilly recognised ecclesiastical bodies, third sector entities and other associations, foundations, cooperatives, companies in individual or corporate form, who are owners, possessors or holders in any capacity of property belonging to the rural cultural heritage, as defined in Article 2 of this Public Notice. In the case of an application for funding submitted by owners or holders of rural cultural heritage property, a declaration must be produced attesting to the owner's authorisation to carry out the work for which funding is requested. In addition, exponential entities owning the communities of civic use with legal personality under private law may also submit an application.

The entities must demonstrate that they are the owners, possessors or holders in any capacity of the real estate where they intend to carry out the interventions, as of a date prior to 31 December 2020, and that they undertake to carry out the activity that is the subject of the intervention for a residual duration, starting from the administrative and accounting conclusion of the financed operation, of at least 5 years.

Financing applications were submitted using only the computer application prepared by Cassa Deposi e Prestiti S.p.A and accessible at hps://portale-paesaggirurali.cdp.it

Resolution No. 865 of 19 May 2023 approved the Vademecum for the implementation of projects and the reporting of expenses incurred, the facsimile of the deed of obligation, and the forms for payment applications and for the other obligations of the beneficiary

By letter from the Agricultural Service, the applicants whose projects have been positively evaluated by the Commission and admitted to financing were notified of the determination to grant the contribution and the request to sign the deeds of obligation.

A letter from the Agricultural Service will be sent to the applicants whose projects have been financed with the notice of eligibility for financing, with indications on where to find the forms, the timeframe to be respected for the start of the works and the reporting of the same, the constraints and obligations to be respected, respectively up to the testing phase and after the testing of the subsidised initiatives.

In particular, the following are recalled

• advertising obligations (site signs, posters or information boards, ....), which must be complied with from the start of implementation of the operation;
• any changes to the works and/or purchases may only be made in accordance with the procedures set out in the annex;
• within 60 days from the communication to the PEC address of the Agricultural Service a report on the progress of the project (with reference to the chronoprogram), illustrating the level of achievement of the targets and milestones, as well as subsequent similar reports every six months;
• if not already submitted, we remind you (as already communicated) to send the relevant ex-ante forms proving compliance with the DNSH prior to the start of work.

The foreseen deadline for the commencement of the work (by means of the necessary communications regarding the start of the work) is 30 June 2023

The deadline for the conclusion of the intervention is 31 December 2025 with the certificate of regular execution, i.e. testing