Sustainable Beauty
will save the World
The Urban Vineyards Association (UVA) was born with the aim of protecting the rural, historical and natural heritage represented by urban vineyards and enhancing it from a cultural and tourist point of view, making it productive for the community and for the future while respecting the environment.
Through wine, and social policies of integration and sustainability.
A Vineyard is not just a gentle hilly landscape. Vineyard can also mean city-life: the unexpected green in the concrete jungle; the colors of tradition and earth, which transforms the boundaries of the city into a new horizon.
These are urban vineyards, unique crops within a metropolitan area. An agricultural, historical and cultural heritage of enormous value, the vines grown within the cities are often real treasures of biodiversity: the most ancient varieties, in some cases very rare biotypes in the ampelographic panorama of a region, have been propagated through the ages, surviving other, more productive or profitable types.
That is why an association was born to bring the Urban Vineyards together in an international network, which can promote historical recovery projects and cultural, landscape and tourist enhancement actions.
The tradition of the earth suddenly emerging from the futurism of the city.
Grapes for the sake of grapes. And grapes for the sake of the city, in fact metropolitan vineyards also reveal to be an eco-management tool, which contributes to urban sustainability.
Do more with less. A simple but significant contribution to the city, like wine is for the table.
The Vineyards
News and Events
Expo Dubai 2020
Sustainable Beauty will save the world
UVA will be guest at the Expo 2020 Dubai Italy Pavilion, on Piedmont Regional Day.
An extraordinary opportunity, but also a great challenge…that of to witness our proposal for smart city of new conception, that grows in the name of sustainability around the UrbanVienyards: a symbol of sustainable tourism and trigger for a revolution of the city space.
October 16/17, 2021, Siena “Urban Vineyards Days”
The association meets, after years of stop due to pandemic, to tell about new future projects and welcome the two new members. Rooftops Reds, a wineyard situated on a rooftop of a Brooklyn building in New York City and the “Etna Urban Winery” planted near Etna, at the entrance of Catania.