Spighe verdi 2023. There are 72 rural municipalities, nine more than last year, that have received the Spighe Verdi, the awards from the green world, such as for seaside resorts with blue flags. Fourteen regions involved with Piedmont which maintains the primacy with 12 green ears followed by Tuscany with 9 awards; the Marches, with 8 awarded locations and 8 also for Calabria. Then Puglia and Umbria with 7, Campania with 6, Lazio with 5. Two green ears in Veneto, Liguria, Abruzzo and Lombardy. An ear in Emilia-Romagna and Basilicata also enters with a new municipality.
Green ears
“The Spighe Verdi do not reward an abstract model of territorial management – explains Claudio Mazza, president of Fee Italia – but certify targeted and concrete actions. Daily choices of administrations, businesses and citizens that contribute to an ascertained and shared virtuous management. Therefore, those rural Municipalities that know how to put important challenges at the center are certified. From environmental management to tourism, from agriculture, to which they are strongly suited, to culture and food and wine, from sustainable mobility to the protection and enhancement of the landscape”.
"Recognizing rural areas, with their businesses, the central role in the management of the territories and for the conservation of nature and the landscape is right and just - says Massimiliano Giansanti, president of Confagricoltura - and Spighe Verdi highlights the value of farmers' work, increasingly sustainable from an environmental point of view, also thanks to innovation and technologies in the field. The program of the Fee Spighe Verdi, of which Confagricoltura has been an active and integral part since its inception, it has had the merit of making public opinion aware of the very concept of sustainability”.
Foundation for Environmental Education
Spighe Verdi is based on the thirty-year experience of Fee, Foundation for Environmental Education, present in 81 countries, in international program management Blue Flag, a voluntary eco-label assigned to seaside resorts. The 12 Green Ears of Piedmont they are Alba, Bra, Canelli, Centallo, Castiglione Falletto, Cherasco, Gamalero, Guarene, Monforte d'Alba, Pralormo, Santo Stefano Belbo and Volpedo. 9 in Tuscany they are Bibbona, Castellina in Chianti, Castiglione della Pescaia, Castagneto Carducci, Fiesole, Greve in Chianti, Grosseto, Massa Marittima, Orbetello. The 8 awarded locations of the Marche they are Esanatoglia, Grottammare, Matelica, Mondolfo, Montecassiano, Montelupone, Numana, Sirolo.
Eight also awarded in Calabria with Belcastro, Crosia, Miglierina, Montegiordano, Roseto Capo Spulico, Santa Maria del Cedro, Sellia, Trebisacce. The 7 Municipalities of Green Ears of Puglia they are Andria, Bisceglie, Castellaneta, Carovigno, Maruggio, Ostuni, Troia. Seven also the number ofi awards In Umbria: Acquasparta, Deruta, Montecastrilli, Montefalco, Norcia, Scheggino, Todi. In Campania 6 Municipalities are awarded: Agropoli, Ascea, Capaccio-Paestum, Foiano di Val Fortore, Massa Lubrense, Positano. There are 5 localities in Lazio: Canale Monterano, Gaeta, Pontinia, Rivodutri, Sabaudia. Veneto sees 2 locations awarded, Montagnana and Porto Tolle, like Liguria, Lavagna and Sanremo. Two municipalities rewarded also in Abruzzo (Joy of the Marsi and Tortoreto) and in Lombardy (Ome and Sant'Alessio with Vialone). Emilia-Romagna has 1 Municipality, parma. Basilicata enters the rankings with a new MunicipalityNova Siri.
