Lecce: the municipality awarded for the marine regeneration masterplan

Lecce: the municipality awarded for the marine regeneration masterplan.

In morning of June 16th, Rome, the XXIII edition of the guide was presented by Legambiente and Touring ClubThe most beautiful sea”, which describes and tells the stories most beautiful Italian coastal sea and lake locations.

It was the occasion also to reward best experiences and good practices that the public administrations, organizations or private entrepreneurs have put underway in the tourism and environmental fields. In category "Territorial integrity”, was awarded the Municipality of Lecce. This is the motivation: “For the path shared between public administration, associations and citizens that led to the master plan for the regeneration of Lecce's marinas".

All ceremony attended remotely for the municipal administration the councilor for urban planning policies and the enhancement of marinas Rita Miglietta.

«I thank Legambiente and Touring Club for their attention towards the route – declares councilor Miglietta – which we undertook in the navies. What the municipal administration has done since the beginning of this mandate was to include the coast of Lecce within a path of cultural growth to bring out the collective values ​​of these 20 km of coast. There are two objectives of the 2030 agenda which inspired us: the one which sees public bodies committed to increasing institutional awareness of new environmental issues and the one which refers to the right to green areas which we have translated into the right to the sea. Our coast has been, over a very long period of time, greatly sacrificed by phenomena of abandonment and widespread illegal construction, but in these 20 km of coast we have 5 sites of community interest, a system of coastal towers, examples of industrial archaeology, testimonies of reclamation, woods, dunes, coastal lagoons. We have tried to systematize these landscape values ​​in a long-term vision that our coast has never had. Thanks to the CIS, we are trying to build lasting local development that sees tourism not as something aggressive and extemporaneous but as a lever for sustainable growth. For us it is a very tiring journey, it is not easy to convince the local community that the results will be seen over the next few years but we are trying hard. By programming and planning in an integrated way, we discovered that there are very high hydraulic and geomorphological hazards on our coast. We didn't know this before. There is sea rise, there is coastal erosion. Collective values ​​of protecting nature and history cannot be built without securing local communities. Having an active approach to environmental emergencies and dangers is essential, otherwise even the tourism business risks being extremely fragile, as the flood in Emilia Romagna recently demonstrated to us".