tARTini

MAIN GOALS OF THE PROJECT

The cultural tourism project “tARTini” aimed to the goal of preserving, upholding, searching, enhancing and promoting the cultural heritage of Giuseppe Tartini, composer and violinist born in Pirano in the year 1692, who in the age of Enlightment was also a scientist, technician and trainer of European relevance and fame.

The general objective was achieved through the implementation of the following specific objectives:

1. The brand DISCOVER TARTINI was drafted to label the new product of cross-border cultural tourism, where the places and the works of Tartini as a common legacy of the border region are to be found. The brand was delivered in tenths of musical and dissemination events inter alia three major concerts, held in Ljubljana, Piran/Pirano and Trieste with the participation of a large audience.

2. The website www.discovertartini.eu offers to scholars, fans and tourists a free access to the digital archive and the catalogue of the music and writings of Tartini (epistolary, scientific and didactic texts), a browser into his recorded compositions, the first universal bibliography of the studies and essays on the tartinian work, the guide to the new exhibitions at Casa Tartini in Piran/Pirano and the Tartini’s Room with his many heirlooms existing in Trieste, the musical tourism path through the tartinian locations with their available tourism services and the section called Tartini Junior where his stories and musical selections are bringing the youngsters to meet the Master from Pirano.

3. The identification and setting of the cross-border cultural tourism path named Tartini Route, that connects the places where Tartini grew, loved, lived and worked between Piran/Pirano, Capodistria/Koper, Venice and Padua, in the framework of the European cultural environment featuring the transnational soul of the Adriatic Sea.

CURRENT ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION

The “tARTini” project after three extensions was finalized on 31 August 2020.

Notwithstanding the cancellation of the events’ programme organized for the 250th anniversary of the death of the Master of Nations (as Tartini was named) at end February 2020, due to the outbreak of the epidemics of COVID 19, the main activities were successfully implemented.

In particular: the study visit for specialized journalists organized by end January 2020 prompted a true media campaign on the figure of Giuseppe Tartini and the results of the project at national scale in Italy and Slovenija; an Association Agreement was signed by the Partners as a reciprocal pledge to guarantee the sustainability and the enhancement of the achieved outcomes; the policy guidelines for a stronger commitment to protect and make the most of the cultural heritage of Giuseppe Tartini and to take full advantage of the values of his work in the tourism economy of the cross-border region.

As it happened over the deployment of the project activities, the synergy provided by all Partners with their current operations substantially multiplied the visibility of the outputs.

The new accessibility of the tartinian heritage fed international scientific conferences, that took place in Trieste in September 2019 as a project event, and later in Padua and in Ljubljana in October and November 2020 respectively.

The liveliness of the Facebook page Discover Tartini with posts sometimes achieving up to twenty thousand contacts witnesses the further potential of the promotion of the results in the long run whereas the continuity of the website is currently guaranteed by the partnership on a voluntary base.