ADRIONET Adriatic-Ionian Network of Authentic Villages Activity T1.1 Territorial analysis DT 1.1.1 Territorial Analysis - mapping of the cultural/ environmental/natural assets DT 1.1.2 Transnational survey on services available DT 1.1.3 Transnational report on networks coverage November 2020 1 Table of Contents Introduction ........................................................................................................................................... 3 1 General information on the pilot areas ........................................................................................... 5 1.1 Geomorphological and Landscape items ..................................................................................................................... 5 1.2 Accessibility ................................................................................................................................................................ 11 1.3 Cultural heritage ......................................................................................................................................................... 13 1.4 Environmental heritage .............................................................................................................................................. 22 2 Socio-economic information ......................................................................................................... 30 2.1 Slovenian Istria and Brkini (Slovenia) ........................................................................................................................ 30 2.2 Medjmurie (Croatia) .................................................................................................................................................... 30 2.3 Zenica-Doboj Canton (Bosnia and Herzegovina) ...................................................................................................... 30 2.4 Central Banat (Serbia) ................................................................................................................................................ 31 2.5 Mirdita, Mat and Klos (Albania) .................................................................................................................................. 31 2.6 Central Macedonia (Greece) ...................................................................................................................................... 32 2.7 Po Basin in Emilia-Romagna (Italy) ........................................................................................................................... 32 3 Focus on tourism ......................................................................................................................... 34 3.1 Slovenian Istria and Brkini (Slovenia) ........................................................................................................................ 34 3.2 Medjmurie (Croatia) .................................................................................................................................................... 35 3.3 Zenica-Doboj Canton (Bosnia and Herzegovina) ...................................................................................................... 37 3.4 Central Banat (Serbia) ................................................................................................................................................ 39 3.5 Mirdita, Mat and Klos (Albania) .................................................................................................................................. 40 3.6 Central Macedonia (Greece) ...................................................................................................................................... 41 3.7 Po Basin in Emilia-Romagna (Italy) ........................................................................................................................... 42 4 Other information ......................................................................................................................... 46 4.1 Slovenian Istria and Brkini (Slovenia) ........................................................................................................................ 46 4.2 Medjmurie (Croatia) .................................................................................................................................................... 47 4.3 Zenica-Doboj Canton (Bosnia and Herzegovina) ...................................................................................................... 52 4.4 Central Banat (Serbia) ................................................................................................................................................ 61 4.5 Mirdita, Mat and Klos (Albania) .................................................................................................................................. 65 4.6 Central Macedonia (Greece) ...................................................................................................................................... 71 4.7 Po Basin in Emilia-Romagna (Italy) ........................................................................................................................... 76 Conclusions ........................................................................................................................................ 89 2 Introduction ADRIONET is a project aimed to identify a set of hamlets and little cities in the Adriatic area and connecting them in a trans-national network, trying to overcome the common situation of margination and socio-demographic decline. The cooperation intends to develop at the international level the concept of “hospitable community”, where the local community assumes the position of local development driver, interpreting its own resources and values to provide accommodation and visit services for the tourist market The project involves seven countries, seven regions, 17 sub-regions, 34 municipalities and 39 hamlets and boroughs (in same cases coinciding with the same municipalities), across the Adriatic region of Europe. The fil rouge of the project and the main feature to choose the places to be involved in the network has been the existence of an aquatic resource to valorise, such as rivers, lakes and lagoons, even if other orographic and more relevant items characterize some places. The following table and maps return in a very stylized way the project scenario. Sub-regional Other orographic Country Region Hamlet Municipality Aquatic resource unit items Hrastovlje Slovenian Koper Karst watercourses Forests and vineyards Obalno- Kubed Istria Slovenia kraška Rodik Karst watercourses and Hrpelje-Kozina Brkini Orchards Beka Reka River basin Central Nedelišće Nedelišće Drava River - Međimurje Upper Jalšovec and Jurovec Štrigova Štrigova Hills with gentle slopes Croatia Medjmurie Međimurje streams Drava River Donji Mihaljevec Lower Sveta Marija HE Dubrava (accumulation - Međimurje Sveta Marija lake) Visoko Visoko Bosnia and Fojnica River Hills with gentle slopes Očevija, Kamenolom and Okruglica, Dabravine Bosnia and Zenica- Olovo Olovo Mount Konjuh - (springs), Stupčanica, Herzegovina Doboj Bioštica, and Krivaja rivers Sources of Stavnja, Forests (hills and Mount Vareš Vareš Waterfalls of river Oćevica Zvijezda) Bega River and Dunav- Serbia Vojvodina Belo Blato Zrenjanin Central Banat Alluvial plain of Tisa Tisa-Duna system Mirdita Mirdita Alessio Qafë-Mollë artificial lake Northern Hills and, vineyards Albania Ulez Mat Ulez artificial lake Albania Diber Plani I Bardhe Klos Balgjaj glacial lakes Mountains Nikiti Sithonia - Halkidiki Aegean Sea Afytos Kassandra - Arkochori Naoussa Imathia Haliacmon River delta Mount Vermio Goumenissa Springs and waterfalls Paionia Kilkis Mount Paiko Skra Sapphire Lake Agra-Vryton-Island Artificial Vryta Edessa Pella Central Lake Greece Macedonia Kitros Pydna-Kolindros Alykes Kitros Lagoon Aegean Sea Palaios Pieria Mount Olympus MAB Dio-Olympos - Panteleimonas UNESCO Daphne Visaltia Waterfalls Mount Kerdylio Serres Emmanuel Papas Emmanuel Papas - Mount Menikio Ossa - Mount Vertiskos Lagada Thessaloniki Petrokerasa - Mount Chortiatis Calendasco Calendasco Caorso Caorso Castelvetro P. Castelvetro P. Piacenza Monticelli d`O. Monticelli d`O. Villanova s/Arda Villanova s/Arda Emilia- Colorno Colorno Italy Po River Padus Plain (“Bassa”) Romagna Polesine-Zibello Polesine-Zibello Parma Roccabianca Roccabianca Boretto Boretto Brescello Brescello Reggio Emilia Luzzara Luzzara Bondeno Bondeno Ferrara 3 Figure 0: The Adrionet project area and the selected villages This report, focused on the description of the geographical, cultural and environmental assets of the pilot areas and of the involved villages, is divided in four sections: after some general information on the pilot areas, articulated in a geomorphological description, a focus on roads and accessibility facilities, on the cultural and the environmental heritage (Section 1), and a social and demographic analysis based on available data for each area (Section 2), tourism demand and supply are addressed (Section 3), while a last chapter, mostly structured with tables, gives complementary and summary information on the previous issues and on the activities of the involved municipalities (Section 4). A final section (Conclusions) tries to extract and comment the main aspects that emerged in the report. Apart from the latter, all sections are divided in seven sub-sections, one per regional pilot area. 4 1 General information on the