The design of the Carolingian Street was created to respond to the need to seek and convey a sense of belonging to a larger community, such as Europe, following the path of travel (from Aachen to Rome) and the sections 800 and Charlemagne in the autumn for travel to Rome, where Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne Emperor of the sovereign Holy Roman Empire on Christmas Eve 800. Then recover but also to safeguard, enhance and manage the landscape and cultural contexts affected by the route to the tourist and cultural territory. La Via Carolingia si pone come un segno tangibile della comunità culturale europea e costituisce un momento importante in grado di sottolineare efficacemente l'impegno per la ricerca delle origini comuni e per la fattiva cooperazione tra i diversi Paesi che anima questa fase di progressiva unità dell'Europa, per la costruzione dell'identità europea.
Il progetto, inoltre, anche con l’ottenimento dell’ ufficialità da parte del Consiglio d’Europa , si pone l’obiettivo di promuovere il percorso carolingio come itinerario culturale che, creando un collegamento ideale fra i Comuni Italiani, Svizzeri, Belgi, Francesi and Germans who are on the track, it will promote and enhance the tourism aspects in addition to those important cultural heritage and landscape.
The Carolingian period was an important moment marked by a major political effort, social, religious, economic and cultural aims in a new way to define the balance of policy areas that had until then outlined as a result of the collapse of the institutions Late Roman.
The ability of the Carolingian was to build a complex project and structured, which rested its hinges on the state and those religious structures rebuilt to provide uniformity and consistency of management spatial fragments that Charlemagne had unified thanks to rapid military campaigns.
The figure of Charlemagne, who was given in 800, with the imperial status, the title of "rex patriae Europae", is then given as a guide for this journey to rediscover the roots of Europe, not coincidence that the one who tried to shape their sense of unity in his empire and whose will it is possible to grasp the origins of the cornerstones of our modern concept of Europe.
History and 800 AD in the Italian countryside in search of the roots of European
back over 1200 years after the route that Charlemagne used between the eighth and ninth centuries for Rome, is a way of travel not only in a geographical space, but also a common time. Finding the network of roads and paths trodden by the Carolingian royal court is a difficult task and difficult to achieve. Starting from the limited available historical sources there could be various options compare with each other several factors: the lines of communication normally used at that time, urban settlements and their importance at the time, the interests of "political" of the Emperor. Even so, many gaps remain, integrated with the choice to enhance two aspects of our territory: the goods concerned children of our great cultural heritage and environmental protection areas under the their outstanding landscape value. This second aspect is
int flagging perfectly with the need to find a path so long ago. If roads and cities have changed profoundly over the centuries, it was not the case for natural landscapes, some may have been drained a swamp, a forest has given way to the agrarian culture, but the essence of the landscape environment is what is not necessarily changed. Found these cardinal points of the route, the final choice on the way to go to interconnect them has settled, where possible, on minor roads to promote cycling audience. In fact, to fully grasp the emotion of a viaggio così particolare, il mezzo più appropriato è la bicicletta, lenta e a volte faticosa, così come era lento il procedere delle cose prima dell'avvento del motore.
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