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Within the valorization process of rural landscape for public recreation, an increasing interest is currently registered on ancient sheep-tracks. Indeed, these paths constitute the historical infrastructure of the transhumance system, that covered all over Europe thousands of kilometers, forming the routes of shepherds, merchants, warriors and pilg...
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... has even enabled the creation of a prototype geodatabase, that could serve as a tool to support decisions about possible tourism and recreational activities. Figure 3 shows how the GIS approach serves these purposes, allowing different types of data from different databases to be put together. In fact, it has been possible to collect not only data on sheep tracks, but also the location of monuments, archaeological sites, historic rural buildings, nature zones and existing trails ( Cillis et al., 2020) in the study area. ...
