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Digital tours in Psiloritis Geopark

May 29, 2020 Landscape Action, Resilience Actions

Digital tours in Psiloritis Geopark

Crete, Greece

Discover the beautiful landscape, local heritage, and the normally most inaccessible parts of the Psiloritis UNESCO Global Geopark directly from your home.

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Beneficiaries

Anyone within the community

Main promoter

Psiloritis UNESCO Global Geopark

Discover the interactive tools here!

Overall aim

In Psiloritis UNESCO Global Geopark, digital visiting has become available. By providing the opportunity to tour the geopark from a distance, locals, as well as non-locals, are now able to visit even the most distant parts of the geopark, directly from their home. Local food and craft producers have also gained promotion through this initiative.

Brief description

The geopark has developed an interactive online map presenting all the natural and cultural features of the geopark together with local products and activities. The online tools include also a storytelling map that offers stories and information of the geopark through videos and traditional songs. The digital visitor can go on virtual tours along trails and discover the most hidden aspects of the geopark through a 360° panorama view.

Replicability

The replicability aspect is finding new ways to maintain and spread interest and knowledge of local heritage through digital solutions. By being creative and using multiple different ways of engaging the visitors, from virtual walks to music, the community can maintain and perhaps even widen its’ reach.

Cross-cutting themes

Mobility & Accessibility   Cultural and natural heritage