The Silk Road is an ancient network of trade routes between Asia and Europe. It takes its name from the most precious commodity that passed through it: silk.
Today we can talk about New Silk Road
The new Silk Road or Belt and Road (also called OBOR in English for One Belt, One Road) is both a set of sea and rail links between China and Europe passing through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, France and the United Kingdom, and the Mediterranean.
The new name is Belt and Road Initiative (B & R) to mark the fact that this project is not limited to a single road. The Silk Road of the third millennium, along with its original model, does not follow a single path, but consists of a series of land corridors linking China to Europe via Central Asia and the Middle East. East.
Linking China to the Middle East, Africa and Europe by developing road, rail, maritime and electronic communication lines is the focus of the new Silk Roads project launched in 2013 by the President of the People's Republic of China, Xi Jinping.
Many countries are involved, about sixty at the start, a hundred in 2017.
 
In 2019 Italy joins the Silk Roads, initially, with transport, then larger projects: industrial parks, energy, telecommunications, tourism projects ... Two axes of development are planned from this year: an axis Academic (writing articles, lighting projects around the world, participating in colloquiums, round table) e an advisory axis (for institutions, companies, men and women politicians, Training Institute, Universities).
 
 
Study trip for U3A in Northern Italy
 
Italy is rich in tourist sites, but I live in the region called Friuli-Veneto and so I will talk about this region and my UTA which is located in Lignano on the Adriatic Sea between Trieste and Venice (70 km from Venice), so it's a seaside town
Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italian Friuli-Venezia Giulia) is an autonomous region of northern Italy, populated by 1.2 million inhabitants, with an area of ​​7,845 km2. It has as capital Trieste.
Friuli Venezia Giulia is composed of two distinct regions: Friuli, which represents 90% of the regional territory, and Venezia Giulia. The latter also included the entire Istrian peninsula, but after the Second World War most of its territory passed to the Yugoslav Federation. The autonomous region is bathed by the Adriatic Sea to the south and is bordered by Austria to the north, Slovenia to the east, Veneto to the west. The territory is characterized by mountains and hills and by the plain. The main rivers are Tagliamento and Isonzo, scene of several battles during the First World War.
Four are the provinces of the region: Udine, Pordenone, Gorizia e Trieste
Agriculture plays a major role in the production of corn, soybeans, sugar beet (sugar), fruits and vegetables. There is a very specialized viticulture that guarantees high quality wine. The breeding also holds its place with its best known products are the ham of San Daniele del Friuli and Montasio cheese.
As far as industry is concerned, there are, as usual in the north-east of Italy, small and medium-sized family-run enterprises in the textile, food, electronics, mechanical, metallurgical and furniture production.
But there are also companies of major size. Trieste (TS) is the headquarters of Illy caffè s.p.a, a company that produces and markets coffee for the whole world. The capital of the region is also the headquarters of Assicurazioni Generali, the leading Italian insurer. Fincantieri shipbuilding sites are based in Monfalcone (GO) and in Trieste, the Zanussi-Electrolux household appliances factory in Porcia, near Pordenone (PN), the Danieli steel mills in the Udine hinterland .
The port of Trieste is the largest international center for the coffee trade and plays a major strategic role in trade with Northern and Eastern Europe. Tourism
The very varied territory, the cities, the crafts, the local gastronomy of which the typical products are the frioulan polenta, white and yellow, the olive oil tergeste, the white and green asparagus of Frioul, the raw hams of San Daniele del Friuli, fish and shellfish from the Adriatic, gubana (pastry stuffed with walnuts, almonds, raisins, pine nuts, candied orange, butter and liqueur), the "strudel" show a tourism potential in perpetual development