The landscape is a real discipline that is studied from different point of view: geographical, geological, morphological and aesthetic. A landscapes is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or man-made features.

1. Tourism resources
territory and landscape

2. LANDSCAPE
The landscape is a real discipline that is studied from different point of view: geographical,
geological, morphological and aesthetic.
It’s a particular part of the territory so as perceived by people whose character derived from
natural and human factors and their interactions.
It’s also considered the interlinkage between history and territory, it is a real cultural asset,
it’s a heritage and a resource that must be safeguarded, valued and studied.
Visible natural features and man made features how they integrate…… physical elements
and geography with human elements.
A landscapes is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate
with natural or man-made features.

3. TYPES OF LANDSCAPE
- skyline / urban landscapes
- natural landscapes
- icy landscapes
- mountainous landscapes
- desert landscapes
- island and coastal landscapes
- densely forested or wooded landscapes
- agricultural / rural landscapes

4. SKY LINE AND URBAN LANDSCAPE

5. MOUNTAINOUS AND ICY LANDSCAPE

6. ISLAND AND COASTAL LANDSCAPE

7. FORESTED AND WOODED LANDSCAPE

8. AGRICULTURAL AND RURAL LANDSCAPE

9. EUROPEAN CONVENTION OF LANDSCAPE
According to the European convention, the term L A N D S C A P E
—> designated a certain part of the territory as it is perceived by
people and is the set of natural and human factors.
Living in a place actually means modifying it, as man has his own
needs (housing, work, entertainment, religion etc ...)

10. ART. 9 COSTITUZIONE ITALIANA
The Italian Republic promotes scientific and technical research and
development.
It protects the landscape and the historical and artistic heritage of the
nation. It protects the environment, biodiversity and ecosystems, also
in the interest of future generations. The law of the state regulates the
ways and forms of protection of animals.

11. ABOUT THE 9TH ARTICLE OF ITALIAN CONSTITUTION
We were the first country to place, among the main fundamentals, the development of
culture and scientific and technical research and, moreover, also the protection and
safeguarding of the historical, artistic and environmental heritage.
The Constitution dates back to 1948 but actually a fundamental concept is that a destroyed
landscape does not come back and all of us were not good at respecting the artistic-cultural
and environmental heritage.( “IF PEOPLE WERE TAUGHT “BEAUTY”, THEY WOULD GET A TOOL
AGAINST FEAR, RESIGNATION AND CODE OF SILENCE”)
Another important thing is that “We Do Not Inherit the Earth from Our
Ancestors; We Borrow It from Our Children
Therefore, Article 9 of the Constitution protects, in an active sense, the historical and artistic
heritage of the nation; which, in turn, is made up of cultural and landscape assets.

12. TERRITORY: GEOGRAPHY (how to read the territory… let’s start from the sea…. )
● Geomorphologically, Teramo has all the natural elements such as water from rivers and
lakes, hills and mountains.
● Related to the coast, as it had not natural defenses men built from Martin Sicuro to Silvi
there are 3 or 4 watchtowers.
They are military garrisons that were always positioned high and usually at the mouth of the
river (useful in case the enemies or pirates wanted to attack the cities).
● Related to the waterways: there are many rivers and valleys that create highways for
communication.
● Related to the valleys and hills: they are characterized by olive and vine trees and cereals
(all three are sacred elements not only in history but in all religions)
Very common the olive trees and the vine trees give the agricultural, aesthetic and
economic structure to the territory. Cereals cultivation is also common in the lower fertile
flood plains and valleys.
● Related to the inner part of the territory: in the mountains we meet large woods and forests.
These offer wood, water and mountain herbs and undergrowth (roots, truffles and
mushrooms).

13. TERRITORY: natural resources from our area
(applications)
stones from rivers
travertine from Monti della laga
limestones from the valleys and rivers Mavone and Vomano
cave
herbs, mixed berries, truffles from forest
saffron , liquorice
meadows
and marshland
prolific soils
hills and valleys
used as building
materials
clay
used to flavour
food
sheep farming
rice cultivation
cereals and crop
olive oil and wine
production

14. GENIUS LOCI: THE MAGIC IN ANY LAND
Genius Loci means Genius Of The Place.
The genius of the place is a personification of the deity and the idea of the sacred.
Each place has one in the form of mythological stories and legends that are part of
our daily life as everything has its history and origins. (Andra)
examples…
folletti/ sprites and elf - sacred animals - sacred trees, plants and herbs
not only belonging to mythology but also to our life

15. TERRITORY: ITS POPULATION
Any population consider their territory sacred because from territory they find
resources to live
The populations have always stopped in one place because there were the right
conditions: in Teramo there was the presence of water and here they created
actual fluvial civilizations (on the banks of the rivers)
The type of population from Abruzzo is featured as FARMER and SHEPHERD as
it comes from the reading of archaeological sites.
Different generations built their premises one above the others, thus even our
most important Cathedrals fund their basis on ancient sacred places and temples.

16. TERRITORY: ITS EATING HABITS
•In Italian culture, especially in the Abruzzo culture, everything we eat (timballo, arrosticini or
porchetta) is part of our history.
All these characteristic dishes are realized thanks to the typical products we have been
cultivating and obtaining from these lands for hundreds of centuries.
•The typical products of our region are oil and wine from vineyard and olive trees covering
great part of our territory….although in Roman times till the XVIIIth century the most
common product was rice, there were many rice fields, because the land was marshy and
favoured the growth of this cultivation. A cultivation of excellence was the rice grown on the
Tordino valley.
•Another important product was the salt that was transported on the Via Salaria that passed
through Teramo where were also traded fruits and vegetables, herbs typical of the local
lands and even ice from the glacier of Gran Sasso mountain .

17. TERRITORY: ITS RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS
The religious traditions in the prefecture of Teramo are very varied and also very ancient
long before early Christianity or Roman pantheism.
In fact we can go back earlier in time, in fact we found archaeological finds consisting in
small figurines/statuettes representing hearts or parts of the body. They were for a sort of
prayers and “ex postulato” to God for health and fertility.
In particular they were required for men and animals, because from animals derived the
richness and wealth for people, from the possibility of reproduction of the animals derived
the food but also for men it meant the possibility to transfer through generations in time.
But we also found natural places considered sacred such as the Grotte di Sant'Angelo which
are natural caves where it was believed that the gods of nature lived.
Under each important church are some ruins that witness they were built upon ancient
sacred places.

18. OUR URBAN LANDSCAPE: TERAMO
Position: the valleys convey naturally in the area where the province was born
Origin: it dates back to Piceni and Pretuzii tribes;
in Roman time: it was “conciliabulum”- city of commerce (salt and raw materials,
olive oils, wines, ice, rice, vegetables, timber and rocks…)
in Medieval time it was object of a privilege by the Pope, city of the Bishop
till the end of the II World War.
the city is the result of the interaction between man and territory: that is, how man
has changed the territory in particular the city of Teramo and how the city has
evolved
It was built on the domus romanae.

19. URBAN LANDSCAPE OF TERAMO: CATHEDRAL
AND BAROQUE WOODEN ALTAR
(man-made resources)
From the territory:
Cathedral was built using local stones and limestones from Torricella near the
rivers, some structural stones from the caves of Civitella, clay-bricks from local
and numerous kilns, white stone from the local territory
On the altar:
raw materials as wood
local craftsmen
faces in the tiles representing Christ life were respondent to the local population
(women and farmers)

20. TOUR GUIDE’S RESPONSIBILITY
Our job will be to be able to present to the tourist, therefore to those who do not
live in our places, the territory where we were born.
All of us will have to go and convey to the tourists, who ignores, the feelings we
feel, that is first of all to show places of interest, but above all we will have to be
able to make the tourist perceive the same emotions and sensations that we
ourselves find in experiencing our territory from an artistic point of view,
naturalistic, historical, cultural and emotional.

21. COMPLETE THE DEFINITION ABOUT LANDSCAPE
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22. https://crosswordlabs.com/view/landscape-118 CROSSWORD LANDSCAPE
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