Travel, Modernity and Rural Landscapes in Nineteenth-Century Liguria

Piana, Pietro; Watkins, Charles

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“…Landscape and topographical art if carefully placed in its historical, social, and cultural contexts can provide important insights into the way that land has been understood and managed (Barrell, ; Cosgrove, ; Cosgrove & Daniels, ). Recently, researchers have stressed the “virtues of topography” (Barrell, ; Daniels, ) in understanding change in rural and urban contexts (Bonehill & Daniels, ; Piana, Watkins, & Balzaretti, ) forestry and vegetation analysis (McLoughlin, ) and historical ecology (Bruzzone, Watkins, Balzaretti, & Montanari, ; Gaynor & McLean, ). The above works use art in combination with contemporary sources and field data, arguing that its contextualization and comparison with other documents provides innovative insights into the way in which landscapes were managed, understood, and appreciated by local and foreign artists.…”

Section: Landscape Historymentioning

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Questioning the view: Historical geography and topographical art

Piana

Watkins

2020

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This article argues that a recent resurgence of interest in topographical art has opened up a new and exciting debate about how such drawings and paintings can be used by historical geographers. This is demonstrated by a review of recent research by historical geographers, art historians, and historians, which explores how topographical art is being interrogated to examine landscape history and environmental change. Topographical views provide insights into the way in which landscapes of the past were shaped, used, and perceived. The article establishes that topographical art is increasingly used in the analysis of past geomorphological processes, which have significant implications for current landscape and heritage management. It reveals that when topographical art is correctly contextualized it can be an extremely valuable source. The artist's biography and education is of crucial importance, as well as the comparison with historical cartographies, documents, and field data. Historical geographers are particularly well placed to undertake research, which questions the artwork's accuracy and goes beyond its literal interpretation as a straightforward depiction of a place.

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Questioning the view: Historical geography and topographical art

Piana

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2020

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“…Due to its exogenous nature, tourism changed the existing balance, from the socio-economic point of view and concerning the way of settling. At the beginning, from the elite-tourism to the complete development of the railway network, the growth of the phenomenon had controllable consequences, as usual when the growth only depends on the transport infrastructures (Piana, 2018). The real tourist shock occurs at the end of the Second World War.…”

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Touriscape2 : transversal tourism and landscape : conference proceedings, Barcelona / 5th- 6th November 2020

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Welcome to the second edition of the International Scientific Conference TOURISCAPE2 – Transversal Tourism and Landscape, which this year will take place virtually in Barcelona from 5th to 6th November 2020. The main topic of discussion will be the relationship between tourism and the landscape and, in particular, the problems of the tourist city. The tourist city has two sides, on the one hand the consolidation of the urban aggregate built during the boom of mass tourism as a city and, on the other, the tourist transformation of the post-industrial city. In addition to these cases, we will also discuss the role of landscape in rural tourism. The congress aims to gather researchers of different study fields, focusing on the analysis and/or projects of tourism and landscape. Architects, economists, geographers, landscapers, sociologists, planners, anthropologist and all the academics interested in the spatial dimension of this phenomenon are welcome to join us and to share their experiences. The academic community answered with energy to the call and we received more than 120 proposals from 183 authors affiliated to 50 diferent university in 16 countries. Organized according to different research lines, the proceedings include the final 80 full papers accepted and which have undergone a double-blind review by the international scientific committee. A selection of the best papers concerning tourism cities and urban tourism will be published in the thematic number of the International Journal of Tourism Cities in 2021. While a selection focused on touristic territories and landscapes, have been included in the book “Turismo y paisaje 2: sobre arquitecturas, ciudades, territorios y paisajes del turismo” edited by Tirant Lo Blanch. For copyright reasons, the full text of those last two groups of papers are not included in this proceedings book, but the abstract.

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“…The increasing popularity of palms and the rise of tourism caused local authorities to consider planting street trees and avenues so that visitors received a suitable impression of wealth and healthy climate. The popularity of Nervi, near Genoa, as a health resort increased once the Genoa to La Spezia railway opened in 1874 (Piana, Watkins and Balzaretti, 2018). There was a need for a new road from the coastal railway station to the town centre.…”

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The Palm Landscapes of the Italian Riviera

Piana

Watkins

2018

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Palm trees are today a characteristic feature of tropical tourist landscapes around the world from Caribbean to the Maldives. They are also a distinctive element of Mediterranean landscapes. On the Italian Riviera they are frequently found in the grounds of villas and hotels, at railway stations and in public squares. This paper examines the changing landscapes of the palm trees of the Italian Riviera over the last 300 years. Palms, particularly Phoenix dactylifera, were an important element of the local economy cultivated especially for palm fronds to be sold for religious festivals. The widespread presence of palm trees gave stretches of the Ligurian coast an almost tropical character, especially around Bordighera and San Remo. These coastal towns became major health resorts in the late nineteenth century and international tourists and residents celebrated this exotic landscape. The palms became important subjects for amateur and professional artists and photographers and they proliferated in gardens, as street trees and in horticultural collections. They became signature trees for these wealthy therapeutic landscapes but rapid building development and the decline of the palm trade means that only fragments of the old palm plantations remain today and these are in need of careful conservation.

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Travel, Modernity and Rural Landscapes in Nineteenth-Century Liguria

Cited by 6 publications

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Questioning the view: Historical geography and topographical art

Questioning the view: Historical geography and topographical art

Touriscape2 : transversal tourism and landscape : conference proceedings, Barcelona / 5th- 6th November 2020

The Palm Landscapes of the Italian Riviera

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