THIRTEENTH HISTORICAL FARMHOUSES IN THE ANDRIA AGRO CASTEL DEL MONTE VALLEYCAN BE TRANSFORMED INTO ACTIVE HOTELS FOR WIDESPREAD HOSPITALITY AND ATTENTIVE TO THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE TERRITORY, AMONG OLIVE GROVES AND VINEYARDS
The economic increase of the North of Bari and the new one BAT, Province of Barletta-Andria-TraniIn the respect for the environment and of environmental sustainabilitycould start from the enormous territory of the countryside of the city of Andria.
Existing agricultural development, integrated with tourism development in Castel del Monte Valley it is one of the new economic and urban operational models that can be implemented in the large and extensive territory around the Federician manor, between the Alta Murgia Park, the historic center of the city of Andria and the Borgo di Montegrosso.
A new system of widespread hospitality
The functionality of over three hundred historic farms, of which the Valley is rich, can be transformed by the current owners or tenants, thanks to collaborations with hotel entrepreneurs, implementing a new system of widespread hospitality in a pure agricultural territory.
A virtuous example to be developed, very similar to the one that took shape in Savelletri/Fasano (BR), between Borgo Egnazia, Masseria San Domenico, Masseria Torre Coccaro and Masseria Torre Maizza, around the San Domenico Golf Club and the Archaeological Park of Egnathia .
An improvement in the environmental safety of the territory
All this can be achieved by private entrepreneurs with the Integrated Tourism Facilitation Packages (Mini Pia and Pia) and with the specific support of the latest Technical Implementation Regulations (NTA) of the PRG of the Municipality of Andria which simplify implementation.
Financing gives the possibility to carry out activities hotel and services related to tourism, widespread in the Andria countryside, contributing in an autonomous, private and independent way to the creation of new accommodation systems.
The objective is to promote the involvement of new generations of young people in management, contributing to economic life by bringing environmental safety to the area.
The works that can be financed are: extraordinary maintenance, consolidation, restoration and conservative redevelopment of properties that are of artistic and historical-architectural interest.
Therefore, small real estate complexes with a minimum number of rooms and services, to be created by transforming rural buildings, farms, trulli, towers, fortifications or period houses.
High-end hotels and youth hostels
It is possible to inaugurate high-end hotels or youth hostels, alongside sports, cultural and recreational facilities, camper areas and campsites.
They can be designed in a simple way or suitable for hosting regional, national and international competitive events approved by CONI and approved by the competent sports federations.
Furthermore, theme parks can also be financed, understood as structures conceived on themes inspired by history, cinema, the environment and society, astronomical sciences, fauna and flora.
From bathing establishments to recreational activities
In the same way, structures affiliated with beach establishments located along the coast of the Adriatic Sea or the Ionian Sea and connected to them can also be financed. Including spaces intended for catering, food and drink, parking and mooring points.
Finally, you can add the activities of tour guides and leaders, sports and recreational courses, dance, painting and sculpture courses, as well as the management of small theater spaces, concert halls and artistic activities.
Respect for the environment and environmental sustainability
The project must be presented to the offices of the Puglia Region, with the specific characteristic of respect for the environment, environmental sustainability, energy saving and ecological transition.
Endorsed for its quality by the University and Polytechnic of Bari, it has the opportunity to propose an entrepreneurial innovation, improving tourist hospitality services, introducing new specific skills, starting a new service for citizens and tourists in transit in the city and in the territory of the Castel del Monte Valley.
Non-repayable financing
A new way to start tourist-accommodation activities and services, which can be financed with a non-repayable fund of over 50%, with the law active in the Puglia Region (Determination of the Director of the competitiveness section, dated 17 April 2024 n° 276 – BUR Puglia Region – n° 34 of 26 April 2024) active today.
An intense territorial life
The three hundred new tourist activities that could be established in the Andria countryside would all be accessible thanks to the network of existing municipal, provincial and state roads.
The three hundred new tourist activities that can be established in the Andria countryside would all be accessible thanks to the network of existing municipal, provincial and state roads.
Therefore, from the coast it is possible to reach each site in a time between 30 and 45 minutes by car and motorbike, or in slow mode and long times by bike (see attached plan).
The activities, located in the Castel del Monte Valley and the Alta Murgia Park, will thus create an intense territorial life between places of historical and environmental importance.
Which: Castel del Monte, Bosco di Sant’Agostino, Montegrosso, Lama Santa Margherita, Sanctuary of the SS Salvatore, Gurgo, Masseria La Guardiola, Lama Genzana, Monte Caccia, Bosco di Finterno, Borgo della Torricciola, Monte Carafa, Torre di Nebbia, Posta Rivera, Posta Lama di Carro, Bosco di Spirito, Posta Milella, Posta Buzzacchera, Posta di Grotte, Iazzo Citulo, Posta Sei Carri, Paparicotta, Torre di Verde, Posta Parco della Murgia, Pozzo Sorgente, Posta Boscarello, Troianelli (see plan Attached).
Bringing all outdoor places back to life
By seizing this economic-tourist opportunity, the rebirth of the area around the city and its historic center is stimulated, bringing tourist activities and inhabitants to the widespread countryside of Andria.
By participating in this project, individually or in association, privately and independently, you can personally contribute to founding a new and renewed hospitality community.
Promoting and developing a new social life, human relations and local, provincial, regional, national and international social relationships.
Stimulating curiosity for the rediscovery of the history of the territory from a naturalistic, environmental, ecological and agricultural point of view, respecting the environment.
By building a new relationship and a historical and social dimension, in one of the oldest territories of Puglia between the coast, the sea and Castel del Monte (UNESCO site).
Developing a new panorama in an unsurpassed natural environment; maximum expression of Puglia and the Mediterranean, contribution to the protection of Nature.
Safeguarding local resources and strengthening support for local communities, promoting environmental sustainability, close to the cultural heritage of vineyards and centuries-old olive trees.
Also attracting tourists to make them live, all year round and in any season, in a simple, healthy, agricultural natural environment. By making people perceive, through tourism, the high attention to the environment and environmental sustainability.