About the project
Prehistoric forts and ethnobotanics for sustainable tourism and rural development – from the Karst (via Brkini, Čičarija and Istria) to Kvarner. Istria, together with Karst, Čičarija, Brkini and a part of Quarner share many common natural features, as well as a common history. The surprisingly dense arrangement of fortified boroughs, named also as »kaštelirji«, reveals densely populated territory in the Bronze and Iron Age. The area of »kaštelirji« was in the pre-historic times actually one uniform region.
Category
- Online platforms
This project aim, through the development of web platform and mobile application as well, was to reveal and re-establish the ancient connection between people and wild plants and to present the traditional knowledge in a contemporary way in order to be used for sustainable development and tourism, in particular. The key point of the project are the fortified boroughs - “kaštelirji”, today overgrown with scrub and forest. The main project goal is to preserve and maintain the cultural heritage of »kaštelirji« by developing the innovative sustainable cross-border tourist offers.
