Dare cura e custodia attiva ai paesaggi tratterai. Una proposta dall'Università

The attention to the recovery and enhancement of the “Tratturi” tracks and more generally to the many tangible and intangible traces of the culture of pastoral transhumance -that complex phenomenon of seasonal migrations of people and animals that has built in a history perhaps millenary whole landscapes of Italy Southern Center - has always been a field of convergent interest for many researchers and scholars, even of different disciplinary backgrounds, witnessed by countless research and publications, also produced within the faculties of architecture.
Difficult, however, is to recognize how such a great mass of scientific production, has been able to activate a greater sensitivity, by local administrators, and by stakeholders, to active forms of care and custody of this extraordinary universe cultural.
Today, in particular, it seems to prevail around the theme of tratturi, within a considerable and appreciable revival of interest, an attitude of painful nostalgia, as of a large decommissioned infrastructure whose use, value and meaning are lost, and to which it is opportune to reserve, occasionally, only occasional celebration.
Few know, however, in addition to the insiders, that most of the Tratturi, despite having lost their original function, are still owned by the State.
The tratturi are, again, good state property, to be exact, that is inalienable, and are also subject to an archaeological constraint, of which it has ownership, also with great effort, an important public agency, the Archaeological Superintendence, Fine Arts and Landscape, which is entrusted with the task of protecting and preserving the property.
But it is the first aspect that deserves special attention: if the Tratturi are state property, like the banks of the seas and rivers, it should not be so difficult to meet, by the different public entities that make up the complex governance of such spaces, to the growing demand for new collective use that with ever greater force is beginning to affect also these extraordinary public territorial structures.
The new data, in terms of the recovery of the trattural tracks, and beyond a current recovery of studies and some exemplary actions, even if probably daring and difficult to implement, like the recent UNESCO application for the recognition of Transhumance as immaterial asset - it seems just this: the growing interest in the paths - an object, however, in Abruzzo also of a regional law - being they religious or historical, as an opportunity for
rediscovery and active, widespread, collective practice of the landscapes and often internal territories of our country.
From this point of view, the tratturi constitute a formidable opportunity to get to know, rediscover and make new, ecological, sustainable practices of territories often burdened by abandonment and marginal conditions, now aggravated - particularly in Abruzzo - by the persistence of seismic events and the widespread insecurity that these events have determined. But to do this it is necessary to establish new visions: to think of tratturis no longer as disused infrastructures, but as a territorial common good, to be re- introduced, with an attitude of responsible consideration of the environmental and cultural testimonial value, flows and circuits of collective community interest locals. And new alliances must also be established, between public administrations, local interest bearers, associations for the defense of common rights, citizens custodians of urban and territorial common goods. Within this, even the public University can play its part, for example by playing a new role, of critical observation, participated in the processes of transformation of the trattural landscapes, performing a function of cultural and scientific stimulation