The EU USEFALL (UNESCO Site Experience For All) project has secured €270,000 for the City of Split in order to facilitate access for disabled persons to busy locations in Diocletian's Palace and the Old Town, and the project was presented on Monday at the Zlatna Vrata Centre for Life-long Learning in Split.

The grant the City of Split has received from the USEFALL project will be spent by June next year, when the project is expected to be completed. The grant will be used to set up a lift/platform at the eastern entrance to Diocletian’s Palace and another lift/ramp at the western entrance to the Old Town.

A map will also be produced containing information about access for disabled persons to cultural premises and a workshop will be conducted for tour guides, and representatives of cultural institutions and NGOs.

The project is being conducted under an Italy-Croatia cross-border cooperation programme, and implemented in cooperation with Italy’s Comune di Ravenna, Fondazione Aquileia and the Venetian Heritage Cluster, Croatia’s City of Porec.

The City of Split applied for the project in May 2017 and it was approved in October last year.

The Italy-Croatia programme’s overall objective is to increase the prosperity of coastal areas, boosting the economy and environment protection of the Adriatic basin by motivating partnerships between cross-border organisations along the Adriatic coast, the City of Split said in a press release.

That will be achieved through a synergy of cooperation between Italian and Croatian partners in the project area with a population of about 12.5 million. The project is a continuation of the EU EX.PO.AUS (Extension of Potentiality of Adriatic UNESCO Sites), as part of the IPA Adriatic cross-border cooperation programme, city authorities said.

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