Forest Railway in Landscape of Cierny Balog Tarvisio

Eu Landscape Award 2012-2013. SK Candidate

The project Salvage, Revival, and Operation of the Forest Railway in Landscape of Cierny Balog was awarded by the Landscape Award of the Slovak Republic 2012 for bringing the people back to their landscape through the revival of a technical monument in the landscape, for restoring the identity of Cierny Balog Region and for retaining its cultural heritage. The project is an exemplary model how people can really make a positive change to their decaying landscape element from the bottom up approach. A high number of the enthusiasts and volunteers, local citizens, as well as invited experts - through combining their enthusiasm, wisdom, memory, efforts, time, expertise, money, planning abilities, and management skills have renewed the original vision - the purpose and the operation of the historic forest railway, which was facing the deliberate extinction by the not appropriate official decision from the last century. The people were able to persuade everybody, that the forest railway gives the additional value to their landscape as a main artery of their region. The forest railway, a symbol of the sustainable wood cutting practice of the previous generation in the region, represents today the living historic form of the landscape, which has contributed significantly towards the characteristic appearance, new life opportunities, prosperity, and well known reputation of the Cierny Hron Valley in Slovakia.

Informazioni a cura di:
Fondazione Landscapefor (2015-2024)

Coordinate geografiche:
48.748945° 19.652567°

Apri in AtlasFor

Indirizzo:
Cierny Balog

Tag:
#premio-paesaggio-europeo.