Augmented reality technology will allow you to visit the territory of the Romanesque Country

The Santa María la Real Foundation, in collaboration with the Center for the Development of Telecommunications Foundation of Castilla y León (Cedetel), is working on creating a tourist guide through a mobile phone application, that will allow a virtual visit to the territory known as 'Romanesque Country'. The project, funded by the Ministry of Culture, aims to put new technologies at the service of the dissemination of monumental heritage.

The Santa María la Real Foundation works on the creation of a mobile tourist guide of the territory known as the Romanesque Country and which, funded by the Ministry of Culture, aims to put new technologies at the service of the dissemination of Heritage. In collaboration with the Center for the Development of Telecommunications Foundation of Castilla y León (Cedetel Foundation) and Romanesque Country, territory “on horseback” between the provinces of Burgos and Palencia and the south of Cantabria, The Foundation aims to spread the “rich heritage and natural offer” of this cultural destination “with own identity” y “closely linked to the Camino de Santiago”.

The project proposes, therefore, use augmented reality tools on mobile devices with iOS or Android systems. The ultimate goal, It is none other than providing the visitor with all the information about the cultural heritage., especially Romanesque, natural and other information of interest about the region, with the guarantee of the experience of the Santa María la Real Foundation and the Romanesque Country Association.

Concretely, The aim is to offer the traveler a tool that facilitates their trip through the Romanesque Country., helping you get to know its historical places, monuments, buildings, natural spaces, gastronomy, people… Ultimately, The ultimate goal is to improve the traveler or visitor's experience., thus achieving loyalty to the destination.

Following the paradigm of “Tourism for all” will be taken into account, besides, las necesidades de los colectivos con discapacidad para crear una oferta turística universal, addressed to everyone, for the sake of accessible and social tourism.

Operation
Within this project, the development of a service based on mobile devices that assists tourists throughout their journey is proposed., allowing them to orient themselves and offering them additional data about their environment. Combining the positioning systems available on mobile (GPS and compass) with the camera, The tourist will be able to access personalized information based on the place where he is and even the direction he is looking..

Thanks to augmented reality, the tourist will see in a graphic and intuitive way the most interesting elements in a specific area and will have additional multimedia information. On the other hand, through the use of QR markers that will be distributed throughout the territory, you will be able to see your experience enriched with images, videos or audio tracks linked to different points along the route.

In order for the Romanesque Country territory itself to be able to maintain and manage the application, A back-office web platform will be developed that will allow new content to be incorporated and existing content to be updated.. Thus, All information related to the Romanesque Country that is accessible from the mobile application will be stored in a database and managed through a web platform. Finally, It should be noted that the project is open to collaboration with other entities, companies or associations in the territory.