(ANSA) - SEZANA (SLOVENIA), SEPT. 15 - ''We are confident that sustainable tourism is the right way to develop cross-border cooperation, develop the land and the people who live in it, enhancing the sites and the natural and cultural heritage''.

This conviction was expressed by Lino Manosperta, AdriaWealth manager, the project that aims to collect and capitalize on the experiences of various projects in order to develop sustainable tourism in the Adriatic regions, which sees has the Apulian Public Theater in the role of leading partner. This idea is even stronger after the convention held yesterday and today in Sezana (Slovenia) on the protection opportunities through the sustainable use of the typical limestone.

''Sustainability is the key word, although we work in various sectors, we share the same point of view, aiming to development'' said at the end of the convention Milos Bavec, project manager of Roof of Rock, one of the five projects included in AdriaWealth, sponsored by Gelogical Survey of Slovenia. ''We still need the limestone to build the houses in the traditional way. This can have a fundamental role in the development of sustainable tourism, in which we need to include industry experts and story tellers'', Bavec added. Slovenian architect Aljosa Dekleva presented some new projects for tourism development carried out in a study conducted two years ago by architects, sociologists, journalists and graphic designers, as part of Bio50, Slovenian Biennial, which investigated the concept and prospects of '' nano-tourism' ', which is the responsible, local, creative tourism. You can find the first examples of this kind of tourism in the Netherlands, in Mannheim or in England, for instance the sleepover in the educational program for boys in the British Museum. A taste of sustainable tourism, based on the rediscovery of the local limestone, was offered today to the participants in an educational tour of Slovenian tourist sites, outside the classical route of Ljubljana, which can be seen through new eyes: from the geomorphological area of Lipica, to the Skrateljnova house Divaca, the Slovenian film museum in a building with karst stone roof, the UNESCO site of the Skocjan caves park, and then a typical farm in Betanja. Sustainable tourism can also merge with culture, as demonstrated by the theatre show ''Moving Stone '', an international co-production carried out by Slovenia's EnKnapGroup, Italy's Apulian Public Theater and Res Extensa, directed by Iztok Kovac and Elisa Barucchieri, brought on stage for the first time wednesday night at the Kosovelov dom in Sezana. (ANSA).