ECOMUSEUM
Despite the rapid development that the hilly region surrounding Castello di Serravalle
has undergone over the past few decades, the landscape has managed to preserve many
of the \"traces\" of human activity that have taken place here over time: the agricultural
and animal husbandry practices, the plantation systems, the old roadway, medieval
buildings, the old mills and early workshops. Studying the landscape here, where history
and nature are interwoven, we can trace a long historical journey which represents
the very basis of local cultural identity, supporting and integrating the available
written documentation and archeological evidence. It is these characteristics which
make Castello di Serravalle the ideal location for an \"Ecomuseum\", intended as an
instrument by which the community learns to care about the land it inhabits, not limiting
its attention to the observation of objects, historical buildings or elements of the
natural environment, but instead favoring direct knowledge of the place itself and
the human activities carried out here, past and present, through which the community
has always expressed its identity.
