MANFREDONIA
Manfredonia is a city of nearly 60,000 inhabitants in the area district of Foggia in the Puglia Italian region. It is situated on the homonymous gulf immediately south of the Gargano promontory.
Manfredonia owes its name to Sir Manfredi of Sicily, the son of Frederick II, who founded it in the 13th century after the ancient city of Siponto was destroyed.
Manfredonia retains whole fragments of history of remarkable interest, beautiful natural aspects and landscapes, traditions and activities.
ACTIVE MANFREDONIA
With the modern style of life the lack of movement has a remarkable negative impact on our health.
Creating conditions that are in favour of movement within a city environment, and bearing in mind the social and health disparities, constitutes an important strategy to fight the sedentary lifestyle.
Active Manfredonia is a very detailed study of the inhabited territory that has pointed out the homogeneous residential sectors for a good health, in other words areas where educational spaces for a good health have been found out. They are particular pedestrian paths at “0 cost” for the institutions (no works to be carried out) and for the citizens (no classes or tickets to be paid for). They are also at “0 km” as they are just outside your house, and they have “0 impact” as they are not invasive.
15 educational spaces for a good health have been designed: A 4.7 km long circle of the historic centre, 12 circular paths about 1 km in length, 2 life paths called “kilometre”.
THE APP. MUOVIDONIA AND ACTIVE CITY
The APP. MuoviDONIA is a 4.7 km long path in the Historic Centre of Manfredonia aimed to turn it into an outdoor gym under the sky for everyone, at all times during the day and all year round.
MuoviDONIA is like a personal pocket sports facility, but it is also a new way to visit cities and get to know them, to follow a several km itinerary easily without having to study it. Slow physical exercise can be combined to the discovery of works of art, panoramas, historical less known sights the inhabitants know more about.
MuoviDONIA is a navigator you can use to visit the Historic City keeping the right speed for a better health.
MuoviDONIA contains pictures and descriptions (audio too)of all the buildings of some cultural, historic and artistic interest along the path.
MuoviDONIA is a different application from those in the Network (Endomondo, Runtastik, Runkeeper…) as it does not make a summary of the physical exercise done, but it tells you where and how to do the physical exercise first in order for it to be most profitable for your health, and then it checks its execution.
MuoviDONIA is a regularity oriented game for active tourists and for residents who want to keep fit with urban trekking, a quick walk or a slow running at the right speed.
You can begin with the starting card or anywhere you like on the path.
MuoviDONIA contains also the free APP. Active City.
Active City is a project aimed to get people to know the Global Reccomandations on physical activity for health published by the World Health Organization.
Through the APP. Active City you can learn how to do physical exercise in order to maintain your health, you can take the pace test for a most profitable result and monitor how much you have achieved with the blisters by using movement pills.