Chiara Tincani "wine roads"6. According to Article 1, second paragraph, these are "routes marked and publicized with appropriate signs, along which insist natural, cultural and environmental values, vineyards and wineries of farms, individual or associated, open to the public; they constitute an instrument through which the wine territories and their productions can be popularized, marketed and enjoyed in the form of tourist offer". In particular, hospitality, including product tasting and the organization of recreational, cultural and educational activities, carried out as part of "wine routes", can be traced back to agritourism initiatives7. The latter are now regulated by Law No. 96 of 20068 and, per its Article 2, "by agritourism activities are meant" those "of reception and hospitality exercised by agricultural entrepreneurs", with "the use of their farm in connection with the activities of cultivation of the fund, forestry and livestock farming". Therefore, "only a functional perspective of better exploitation of the farm's resources can make such services be considered connected to the typical activities of the entrepreneur"9. It is intended to facilitate the multifunctionality and permanence of enterprises on the fund with the increase in income, made possible by the performance of catering and hospitality services. Therefore, the original activity must be prevalent. Per Article 2, third paragraph, of Law No. 96 of 2006, agritourism functions include the serving of "meals and beverages consisting" predominantly of "own products and" those "from farms, including products of an alcoholic and super - alcoholic nature", as well as the organization of "tastings of farm products, including the pouring of wine". The winemaker may offer additional services as long as they are related to 6 See Article 1, first paragraph, of Act No. 268 of 1999. 7 See Article 1, third paragraph, of Act No. 268 of 1999. 8 Act No. 96 of 2006 repealed Act No. 730 of 1985. 9 Cf. Busti, L'agriturismo, in Aa. Vv., Manuale di diritto del turismo, edited by V. Franceschelli - Morandi, Turin, 2022, eighth edition, 269 ff.; Costato, La nuova disciplina sull'agriturismo, in Studium juris, 2006, 803 ff.; Testa, La ratio dellla normativa statale e regionale in materia di attività ricettive in case rurali, in Riv. it. dir. tur., 2013, 53 ff.; Aversano, Regole sul cibo e sviluppo turistico dell’impresa agricola. Il caso del food events, ibid., 2017, 7 ff..
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