VITOUR is an European network of 10 wine growing cultural landscapes, that are entered to list of UNESCO World Heritage. These cultural landscapes of enourmous value for Humanity in general and for the people living in these areas, a result of the harmonious interaction between man and nature, shall be valorised and preserved, trying to achieve a sustainable development and a sound safeguarding of their most important elements for human identity and natural integrity, and a s a testimony of human genius

The VITOUR LANDSCAPE Project is a result of the cooperation put in place during 2005 and 2007 by 6 of the actual 10 project partners, from Italy, Austria, France, Hungary, Germany and Portugal, under the previous project VITOUR (INTERREG III C). After this first cooperation, 4 other European UNESCO World heritage wine growing areas, namely Pico island, Montalcino/Orcia Valley, Wachau and Lavaux joined the group of the VITOUR network and together they decided to present a new project, under INTERREG IVC, to improve and innovate local and regional policies for cultural landscape preservation and valorisation in their wine growing areas.

The good policy practices the partners will exchange during 10 technical seminars which will focus on the description and analysis of actions already implemented in various fields of interest linked to the global theme of "landscape preservation and valorisation". They focus on: respectful and harmonious spatial planning and landscape, urban or village development policies; respectful, harmonious and innovative architecture and landscape architecture for UNESCO wine cultural landscapes, particularly dry stone wall maintenance in vineyards