Abstract
The volume “The Landscape”, edited by the geographer Aldo Sestini in 1963 in the collection dedicated to Italy of the Italian Touring Club, represents the first original attempt of a careful description-interpretation of Italian Landscapes, classified in 95 types (grouped in 9 forms), on the basis of geological, morphological and climatic factors. The work deserves nowadays to be “reused” for “active” aims, such as geography teaching, landscape education, realization of cultural itineraries for tourist aims, editing of detailed monographs of of local landscape units. The new functions demand the integration of historical analysis with the geographical one, to build index maps shared and suitable to give substance to landscape planning tools, as defined by the Codice dei Beni Culturali e del Paesaggio.
