An Azorean island transformed into an environment museum.
The Vila do Corvo, on the island of Corvo, in the Azores, became from now in an eco-museum, an idea of the Regional Government which aims to recover the historical center of the smallest island of the Azorean archipelago. And still promote it as a tourist destination to enhance their identity.
The historic center of Vila do Corvo, where the entire population of the island lies about 400 people, was rated in 1997 as "a set of public interest". This classification allows access to a program of co-financing for the rehabilitation of buildings in the village 50% to 75%, repayable.
Regional Secretariat for Education and Science of the region, said the realization of Corvo ecomuseum is "the impetus for the reversal of the current situation of physical degradation of old urban core," according to Lusa.
The development of the rehabilitation project involves the installation on the island a permanent Technical Support Office, which will be responsible for projects of rehabilitation of the property at no cost to the owners, as well as the inventory of heritage and the creation of a network of cultural interest.
