The Territorial Strategy for the Mountain and Internal Area (Stami) of the Forlì and Cesena Apennines is beginning to materialize. The Municipality of Santa Sofia has in fact approved the professional assignment for the executive planning and works management of the project ‘From spaces to places. Intervention in Corniolo for the new generations’; a substantial intervention for a total amount of approximately 550 thousand euros financed by the Emilia-Romagna Region through the resources of various European funds (PR FESR and ESF+). The project, which involves the implementation of energy redevelopment works on the former municipal school building in Corniolo, will be managed by the architect Simone Gabrielli from Acquapartita.
“The planning for the redevelopment of the former Corniolo school in via Zanetti has begun, destined to become an extra-hotel accommodation facility. This is an intervention financed by the Stami measure – specifies the deputy mayor and councilor for public works Matteo Zanchini –, which we have chosen to direct decisively towards tourism development, in full coherence with the direction undertaken also thanks to the public and private actions launched through the Pnrr Borghi tender. We continue to work with conviction on sustainable and conscious tourism, capable of generating value for the territory. The ongoing project will be signed by the architect Simone Gabrielli and represents a strategic piece of this vision”.
Given this, adds Zanchini, “the part of private investments must be stimulated more, in particular in the field of services and the food and wine offer, so that the relaunch process is complete and lives up to the potential that we can express”.
On the same wavelength are the pro mayor Goffredo Pini and the president of the Pro loco of Corniolo-Campigna Leonardo Pisanelli. “It was a choice shared with the municipal administration between the local council and the Pro Loco as in Corniolo there is an extreme need for spaces to be used for tourist accommodation and more. The requests from families and groups are increasing and therefore the choice to use the historic building, built in the 1930s and used as a school until 2017, is an important response on this front”.
Corniolo, despite the fact that like all the Apennine centers there is a constant decline in population, has decided to focus more and more on attracting new tourist segments, as demonstrated by the reopening of the campsite by two young people from Corniolo and the management of the camper area and the hospital along the Camino di Assisi, without forgetting the presence of well-known hotels and farmhouses.
