The paper investigates the role of tourism in the Alpine valley-floor territories, reframing it not as a driver of deterritorialisation, but as a potential regenerative device. The case of the Piana Rotaliana Königsberg (Trentino Province, Italy), historically defined by a dominant viticultural vocation and traversed by major infrastructural corridors, offers a critical lens through which to examine the vulnerabilities produced by agricultural monofunctionality, ongoing land consumption, and the structural polarisation between valley floors and highland areas.
Within this context, the strategic project “Wine Garden”, launched in 2021 by the PRK Tourist Consortium in collaboration with academic and cultural institutions, advances an “antifragile” model of tourism grounded in community participation, stewardship of the cultural landscape, and multi-level governance. Through a structured process encompassing territorial analysis, co-design practices, and the development of an articulated masterplan, the project reconceptualises the agricultural landscape as an ecological, cultural, and aesthetic infrastructure, and as a catalyst for long-term territorial regeneration.
The study argues that a calibrated balance between preservation and innovation can reconfigure the cultural landscape as a dynamic relational system, capable of generating both tangible and intangible value through shared, multidisciplinary governance frameworks.
