Policy objective: PO 4 - A more social and inclusive Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights

Specific objective: SO 6 - enhancing the role of culture and sustainable tourism in economic development, social inclusion and social innovation

Typology: Standard project

DANTE is dedicated to the important values of communication in national languages, to the broadening of the use of the Slovene and Italian languages through the establishment, mapping and networking of literary routes and stakeholders in the programme area. The project is based on the founder of the Italian literary language, Dante Alighieri, and his presence in the cross-border area, as his work represents a heritage of fundamental values in which we still recognise ourselves today. His work The Divine Comedy is a poetic encyclopedia of all medieval knowledge and was also created in the present-day area of Friuli Venezia Giulia and Posočje. The poet is known to have visited this area. Dante moved between northern Italian cities after his expulsion from his native Florence. During these years he probably spent some time in the old Castle of Duino near Trieste. It is thought that on this occasion he also came to Tolmin, where he was hosted by the Patriarch of Aquileia, Pagano Della Torre. The project's lead partner, the Municipality of Izola, historically substantiates the presence of Dante through the manuscript, as the National Library of the Marciana in Venice holds Dante's Codex, which was written in Izola. This cross-border shared history serves as a starting point for the project, which aims to establish a cross-border DANTE literary trail. The literary trail will offer 5 one-day short trails, which together will form a whole and will be designed on the basis of 5 interactive interpretative cultural trails using the storytelling method. DANTE aims at an innovative interpretation of the heritage according to the New European Bauhaus method, as this heritage has yet not been digitised and presented in a modern way. The common challenge for the cross-border region is to promote and strengthen the tangible and intangible cultural heritage and to strengthen the role of culture as a tool for the overall well-being of people in the processes of economic and social development, including sustainable cultural tourism.