UNWTO Affiliate members report Volume Twelve, Global Report on Cultural Routes and Itineraries. Transnational urban memory for local development: the ATRIUM Route.

As it is based on the main buildings and urban landscapes of past authoritarian European regimes, ATRIUM brings together a dissonant heritage, one based on values which present-day Europe unequivocally repudiates. The project aims at encouraging a shared view of European identity that is able to face the uncomfortable and contradictory aspects of the history of the twentieth-century. Within this framework, tourism could play a crucial role not only by creating wealth but also making people more aware of this dissonant urban heritage. From the outset, Forlì, the municipality leading the project, took into consideration both the cultural and the tourism dimensions.