The project aims to enhance the tourism potential of industrial heritage and living industry by rediscovering the local Genius Loci
GENIUS LOCI is a co-founded European project under the COSME Programme of the European Union. The project has the intent to put the heritage of SMEs and traditional crafts and industries in the light and to revalue and enhance its appreciation by tourists and the general public.
Partners are located in: Italy, Spain, Hungary, Malta, and Belgium.
The Genius Loci Project aims to foster the touristic market related to the following sectors:
1. Fermented drinks (beer, wine, cider, etc.), the distilling process, and their transformation in spirits
2. The heritage of clay processing industries (bricks, tiles, roof tiles (refractory bricks, pottery, drainage pipes, majolica, etc.)
3. Traditional textile crafts (weaving) and the production of traditional European textile fibres (as flax, hemp, etc.)
This web site is part of the project GENIUS LOCI which has received funding from the European Union’s COSME Programme (2014-2020).