Programme: CARIPLO Funds
Title: CastLe “Castelli Salentini in tour-Lecce”
Acronym: CastLe
Start - End Start 2006 – End settembre 2007
Field of Intervention: Promoting cultural tourism through ICT
Location: Province of Lecce
Lead Partner: Municipality of Lecce
Partners: Euro-Mediterranean Cultural Heritage Agency; Municipality of Poggiardo, Municipality of Castro, Superintendence for the Historical, Artistic and Demo-ethno-anthropological Heritage of Apulia
Targets:
Creating a network system for the use and exploitation of castles in the project through diversification of their use and implementation of a territorial ICT system able to enhance the thematic network
Achievements a) Charles V‘s Castle, Lecce, creation of a centre for Cataloguing, study and dissemination of costume and fashion; b) Tower of Belloluogo Lecce, Nymphaeum Route; c) Castle of Castro, center of virtual documentation on the castle system and on the defensive architecture of Salento; d) Castle of Vaste – Poggiardo, documentation center on the Messapian Culture; e) Castle of Copertino, center for the on-line didactic experimentation. - congress center. The “Barocco terra del sole – local tourist system – Srl” is aimed at the enhancement and fruition of the whole system.
