Dwelling the landscape. Tradition and innovation

In the last decades there has been a growing interest in the rediscovery of the ethical relationship between man, landscape, economy, environment and culture through an aware experience and an enhancement of the natural, historical and artistic heritage. The hypothesis that the paper investigates is that the phenomenon of tourism, in its highest meaning, is closely linked to the meaning of dwelling. Traveling in order to dwell different places, albeit temporarily. Habitare does not only mean to habitually stay, to dwell, but first of all to have permanently or usually, to have the habitus or the habit of something. Dwelling becomes, in this sense, an ontological category. According to Agamben, "Dwelling means creating, preserving, and intensifying habitus and habits, that is, ways of being." If it is true that man needs not only a den or a nest, but a home, that is, a place to dwell, where he can build, know and intensely exercise his habits, then traveling presupposes the ability to recognize and experience the habits of other places, other civilizations, other people, that is, the ability to dwell . In this ontological dimension of dwell, tourism is vehicle and opportunity to know past and value of place. Tourism becomes tool to dwell the historical, cultural and natural heritage, grasping the synthesis of tradition, memory and place.