On the morning of 22 September 2018, the Community for the Centocelle Public Park, in collaboration with LabGov and under the aegis of the Council of Europe, organized a second heritage walk for some of the key places of the Co-District. The heritage walk is an innovative tool for involving local communities and enhancing the cultural and historical heritage that each territory enjoys.
It differs from the usual guided tour for several reasons:
- It is conceived and organised by citizens who, regardless of their profession, act as a heritage community;
- It is based on a significant theme that acts as a common thread;
- There are witnesses who report their link, their history with those places, telling their own experience;
- Culture is understood in a very broad sense, involving places not directly affected by the usual mass tourism;
- Allows you to visit also private places;
- It is organised free of charge and on a voluntary basis.
The heritage walk is therefore a tool that allows you to tell and live in a completely new way the territory with all its riches.
The walk of September 22 was attended not only by local communities, but also some European actors, Eutropian and the European Cultural Fundation, who had expressed the desire to know, on the one hand, the heritage of those territories and on the other, what was happening in Co-District. The route began from the urban garden “Isola San Felice”, a green space taken up for adoption and managed by Ass. 100eacapo APS and where the first satellite of Orto Luiss was installed: this area has a strong social value for the community, it is in fact the first micro-activityregeneration realized together with LabGov and ENEA and that over the years has continued to be for the entire neighborhood a safe space where children can play and meet in the afternoon. The next stop was the Osteria di Centocelle, passing through the Park, where participants were able to admire the environmental and historical beauty in the open air, and learn, thanks to the explanation of an archaeologist, the heritage located under the park, like the two Roman villas. Later, it was reached by bike the Tower of San Giovanni also called Torre di Centocelle, from which the group continued to the so-called Park of Culture and the garden of collaboration hosted by the library Rugantino in Torre Spaccata. These vegetable gardens in large chests are the third satellite of the LUISS garden and have been important tools for involvement and awareness at local level. Then passing through the Alessandrino aqueduct, another historical monument that crosses the Co-District, we arrived at Fusolab, an important space for social aggregation, as well as training and innovation.
The leitmotif of the walk was to tell through the places of the Co-District, the work done so far by the community and the great potential, both economic and environmental and cultural, that characterizes those areas.
