Glamping also comes to Florentine farms. The new frontier of outdoor tourism, which sees the construction of houses surrounded by nature or tents suspended on trees, will finally be possible also in the hills around the Tuscan capital: this will be foreseen by the next urban operational plan on which the Municipality is working, with the aim of exploiting the wake of a form of outdoor holidays that is having great success in the world, also thanks to the complicity of the covid pandemic that has favored forms of tourism more in contact with nature.
This was announced to Repubblica by the city planning councilor Cecilia Del Re: “In the next urban planning operational plan we will implement the new regional legislation on the subject and we will therefore open to the possibility of creating glamping or agri-campsites linked to farms within the terms provided for by the legislation regional. We have received various contributions in this regard, especially in the area of Firenze Sud and Firenze Certosa, areas that have an agricultural vocation ». This means that the farms of the Florentine territory will be able to start glamping activities, acronym of “glamor” and “camping”, or luxury campsites characterized by a marked immersion in nature.
In 2015, the year of approval of the previous Municipal Operational Plan still in force, glamping did not yet exist in Italy, but were already going strong in California. Shortly thereafter they arrived in our peninsula, so much so that in 2021 the Tuscany Region simplified the process to start these activities on farms, allowing the construction of “tents of all shapes and sizes with a maximum useful area of 70 square meters , also individually equipped with sanitary and kitchen facilities, provided that the external walls and roof are mainly of canvas “, as well as” campers, caravans, mobile homes, equipped with rotating mechanisms in operation, also individually equipped with toilets -sanitary and kitchen, of a maximum of 70 square meters “. Consequently, individual Municipalities can now regulate this type of activity, and this is precisely what Palazzo Vecchio intends to do, with the aim of attracting people who come to Florence without besieging the historic center for housing, and at the same time helping farms. , in difficulty due to the drought, to start alternative business forms.
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