The activities of the Marche Region Cultural Heritage Service are aimed at the restoration, enhancement and promotion of cultural heritage in the framework of regional territorial policies.

In the archaeological field, the Service has activated the application of a regional law issued in 1994 concerning the safeguard and the enhancement of the archaeological heritage to define a map of archeological sites relevant to regional policies, with the institution of seven archaeological parks, and to outline a programme of investments in a five years period. This work, carried out together with other institutions involved in the preservation and enhancement of archeological evidences, has been a good experience of institutional integration for the improvement of territorial planning activities.

With reference to archaeological parks system, the Service has promoted a pilot project to realize a thematic cartography on a 1:2.000 scale, to allow local authorities to plan sustainable interventions. The project aims also to a better definition of parks borders with reference to the cultural, economical and environmental contexts. Territorial analysis and surveys has been carried out in the same occasion on the ancient roman route Flaminia, which is characterized by several important roman monuments and archaeological items on display in the small local museums along the way.

In the Objective 2 Marche   Programme for the 2000-2006 period the Service is responsible for the caring out of a Measure specifically dedicated to the restoration and the promotion of the cultural heritage, with an action line aimed to the restoration and enhancement of archaeological sites. After the selection procedures, 8 projects for open-air museums and five projects for the improvement of connected “traditional” archaeological museums have been co financed and works are in progress.

In the INTERREG II C – Cadses Programme the Service has participated to the Let’s Care Method project, caring out with the Macerata University Archaeological Department the realization of a first experimental geographic information system on the sample area of the Cupramarittima archaeological park, to structure in a data-base basic cartography with infrastructure, naturalistic, archaeological data together with alphanumeric data.