TY - CPAPER AU - Daniele Campolo AU - Giuseppe Bombino AU - Tiziana Meduri AB - Cultural Routes and Cultural Landscapes have now been assumed as key elements in the panorama of cultural tourism, because they can combine, in one place, various aspects desired by tourists: contact with nature, identity and intangible heritage, knowledge and local production, etc. This paper analyses a territory in the province of Reggio Calabria that fulfills the cultural route and cultural landscape criteria: it has inside a big abandoned infrastructure, which could become a driving force for sustainable development of inland areas. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. DO - 10.1016/j.sbspro.2016.05.350 N2 - Cultural Routes and Cultural Landscapes have now been assumed as key elements in the panorama of cultural tourism, because they can combine, in one place, various aspects desired by tourists: contact with nature, identity and intangible heritage, knowledge and local production, etc. This paper analyses a territory in the province of Reggio Calabria that fulfills the cultural route and cultural landscape criteria: it has inside a big abandoned infrastructure, which could become a driving force for sustainable development of inland areas. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. PY - 2016 SN - 1877-0428 SP - 584 EP - 590 TI - Cultural Landscape and cultural routes: infrastructure role and indigenous knowledge for a sustainable development of inland areas VL - 223 ER -