Side by Side - New Horizon of Cultural Routes Conservation and Research in China and Italy

The book presents the results to the Chinese public of the Bilateral project "Routes of culture: enhancement and management of large scale heritage sites. Via Appia - Roman Consular street - and Grand Canal of China" financed by the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) and the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage (CACH) during the period 2016-2018. The research undertaken by the two teams aimed to promote a better understanding of cultural heritage conservation, valorisation and management policies and tools in the two countries particularly with reference to big scale heritage sites. In this sense the world famous sites of the Grand Canal (that became World Heritage Site in 2014) and of "Appia Antica" (Appia Regina Viarum, the Queen of antique consular streets) were selected as the most representative cases, both for their long lasting history and for their recent developments. The book presents also other case studies appropriately chosen by the editors.