The MagicwHand and Audiobyke projects: following historical routes across the central Apennines for scientific research and development of sustainable tourism

The study of the ancient Roman consular roads is an opportunity to observe and study - along the way - the landscape crossed and the interactions with human activities over many centuries. The Via Appia and the Anterocrium-Amiternum route, a branch of the ancient Via Salaria, crossed the impervious Apennine region and still today reveal the signs of the engineering solutions implemented to overcome obstacles, the exploitation of local resources, and a long series of maintenance works. Over the last few years the Lazio Region financed, through the POR-FESR 2014-2020 calls, two projects aimed at developing collaboration between research institutions, universities and private companies in the field of Geoscience applied to Cultural Heritage and development of sustainable tourism. The archaeological area of the Via Appia between Fondi and Itri (Latina) and the gorges of Antrodoco (Rieti) preserve tangible signs of the development of the Roman civilization and its passage, two open-air museums which, however, have so far remained off the routes of main tourist itineraries. In the context of the "MagicwHand" and "Audiobyke" Projects, the CNR-IGAG (Institute of Environmental Geology and Geoengineering) and the DILBEC (Department of Letters and Cultural Heritage) of the University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" collaborated with the Spaceexe company providing scientific contents suitable for dissemination through innovative tools dedicated to trekking and cycle-tourism activities. In this contribute, the main results of scientific researches, including geoarchaeological and geomorphological surveys, mineropetrographic and isotopic analyses and geo-hazard evaluations are presented, as well as the state-of-the-art of the high-tech applications.