The “albergo diffuso” (scattered hotel) is a typical Italian tourism system, introduced for the first time inthe early 1980s by the Autonomous Region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. It is a tourist accommodation man-agement system that is able to deliver the services of a full hotel, by lodging clients in accommodationcreated in and around existing houses in mostly rural contexts. The accommodation is within walkingdistance of a centrally located main building. The albergo diffuso is organised horizontally, while tradi-tional hotels are usually organised vertically, with a principal, and often single, building hosting commonspaces and rooms. This new kind of hospitality offers visitors the opportunity of “living in the area”, bytaking part in the social life of the village, and may be seen as a tool for preventing the depopulationof small rural towns and for recovering abandoned villages. In this paper we discuss a proposal for analbergo diffuso in Osini, in Sardinia, Italy. Osini is an old rural village that was abandoned in 1951 becauseof a severe landslide. We verify the premises and viability of this intervention in terms of the opportunityit offers for launching rural tourist activities in the area, the European and national legal and institu-tional scenario, the regional landscape and hydro geological planning tools, and the recommendationsfor adopting coherent building types, techniques, and materials.
Recovery of rural centres and “albergo diffuso”: A case study inSardinia, Italy
LEDDA, ANTONIO;
2015-01-01
Abstract
The “albergo diffuso” (scattered hotel) is a typical Italian tourism system, introduced for the first time inthe early 1980s by the Autonomous Region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. It is a tourist accommodation man-agement system that is able to deliver the services of a full hotel, by lodging clients in accommodationcreated in and around existing houses in mostly rural contexts. The accommodation is within walkingdistance of a centrally located main building. The albergo diffuso is organised horizontally, while tradi-tional hotels are usually organised vertically, with a principal, and often single, building hosting commonspaces and rooms. This new kind of hospitality offers visitors the opportunity of “living in the area”, bytaking part in the social life of the village, and may be seen as a tool for preventing the depopulationof small rural towns and for recovering abandoned villages. In this paper we discuss a proposal for analbergo diffuso in Osini, in Sardinia, Italy. Osini is an old rural village that was abandoned in 1951 becauseof a severe landslide. We verify the premises and viability of this intervention in terms of the opportunityit offers for launching rural tourist activities in the area, the European and national legal and institu-tional scenario, the regional landscape and hydro geological planning tools, and the recommendationsfor adopting coherent building types, techniques, and materials.
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