About Bioliguria

Bajardo Bioliguria SCRL Non Profit

was founded in April 2001 in Imperia to carry out the EcoBajardo project.
The realization “Autonomous Village” has led to the development of further projects in other regions in the area of “Renewable Energies”.

The plan for the development and reconstruction of Bajardo was taken up in October 1999 by Gabriella Rosaffio, Mayoress and Vice-Mayoress of Bajardo up to 2009 following the initiative of Bioliguria – EcoArchitettura, that proposed an integrated development making use of natural resources without substantial exploitation of new land. The starting point for the study was the demographic situation, the community and its problems, so as to develop possible solutions on an economic basis. An international commission of experts with representatives from different fields was created.

Bioliguria-EcoArchittetura’s approach envisages a general concept for the village of Bajardo.
So on the one hand the historical centre will be reconstructed, on the other hand the village will be made as autonomous as possible in its infrastructures, facilities and its provisioning and disposal.

Our goals

The goal is to make the development of Bajardo into a model to be imitated and refined in the next decade by the surrounding villages, so as to work against the destruction of the Maritime Alps’ millennium-old tradition.

Photo:© Mario Verin, from the book L’ACQUA, LA PIETRA, L’OLIVO riviera dei fiori. All rights reserved.

But the foremost thought must be that of protecting from reckless exploitation the natural resources of this small part of our world. The Bajardo project should help in the long run to hinder the devastating consequences of the destruction of intact environmental areas by tourist exploitation.
We hope that the EcoBajardo model will show the way, and that it will create prospects for a model of development that will maintain the beauty of the region as well as its environmental wealth, while at the same time supporting, by means of economic incentives, an environmentally-compatible, soft-impact tourism.
The Bajardo development plan for the next decade could be used as a model to be taken up by the surrounding towns, so as to contrast the progressive destruction of the traditional cultures in the Maritime Alps.

To do this the following points are planned:

1. Maintenance of the historical village structure (Nucleo) and restoration/reconstruction of the same
2. Borgo Albergo“ – A hotel in the the historic village area of Bajardo is being planned
3. Energy supply: solar power
4. Disposal: biological purification plant with secondary sedimentation
5. Supplies: local drinking water supply
6. Collecting and processing of local wild products (mushrooms, blackcurrants, redcurrants, berries, strawberries, herbs, etc.) and regional biological produce (olives, wine, fruit, vegetables etc.) by means of local companies and people.
7. Medical care: clinic, thermal water (thermal baths in Pigna)
8. Education: Environmental and historical jobs (‘Antichi Mestieri’), ecological architecture, biological cultivation
9. Work: independent offices, studios and exhibit rooms (artists, painters, sculptors, artisans, ‘Antichi Mestieri’, etc), fair trade stores, gastronomy at the ‘Braia di Bajardo’
10. Green homes, green holiday homes at the historical centre of Bajardo (biological and sustainable reconstruction of traditional natural stone architecture)
11. Ecotourism /Low-impact tourism: lodging houses for hotels, pensions, environmentally compatible leisure activities
12. Events: festivals, exhibitions, theatre, markets (arts and crafts), etc.
13. Mobility: environmentally compatible infrastructures (paths for walking, riding and bicycling),
    A 5,5 km road on a panoramic route to Sanromolo (motorway connection)

Persons

Gabriella Rosaffio

Mayoress and Vice-Mayoress of Bajardo up to 2009

Alberto Pulinetti

Architect, specialist for the preservation of historical sites

Renato Ausenda

Sculptor, renowned for his intellectual representations of the “Meridiana”