XILBI PROJECT / Tourism · Cultural heritage · Geospatial

ARISE project logoARISE

Archaeological Routes for Inclusive Synergy & Entrepreneurship in Sierra y Mancha Conquense

A live destination platform connecting cultural heritage, local businesses and rural development through intelligent geospatial services.Open the live ARISE platform
StatusCompleted pilot · live service
Programme / periodOctober 2025 – June 2026
Xilbi roleTechnical development and platform engineering
Funding contextHorizon Europe · PoliRuralPlus
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PROJECT OVERVIEW

ARISE delivered a live digital service for Sierra y Mancha Conquense, connecting Roman heritage, rural businesses, visitor planning and stakeholder coordination. The public platform brings together heritage discovery, multi-stop itineraries, local-business visibility, territorial information and location-aware guidance.

The service is complemented by an authenticated operational environment for maintaining content, coordinating stakeholders, monitoring activities and supporting the long-term use of the platform.

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FROM NEED TO RESULT

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Operational challenge

The territory contains major Roman archaeological assets, including Segóbriga, Valeria and Ercávica, but visitor information, local services and territorial coordination were fragmented. This restricted longer visitor journeys, broader local-business exposure and coordinated rural-development action.

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Engineering approach

Xilbi and Obsidian developed a multilingual public gateway, operational administration and MAAT collaboration workspace. The solution combines Laravel services, Leaflet and OpenStreetMap interfaces, structured territorial data, public and authenticated APIs, OpenAPI documentation and spatially contextualised guidance through PoliRural Jackdaw.

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Results and legacy

ARISE leaves a functioning heritage and rural-service gateway, an operational stakeholder workspace, documented technical foundations and a transferable replication model. Other rural areas can adapt the platform primarily by replacing territorial data, routes, businesses, languages, branding and stakeholder structures rather than rebuilding the complete service.

TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM

The capabilities assembled around the project.

  • 01Digital heritage
  • 02Leaflet and OpenStreetMap
  • 03Route planning
  • 04Location-aware guidance
  • 05Multilingual platform
  • 06OpenAPI
  • 07Stakeholder workspace

PARTNERSHIP & FUNDING

Delivered through European collaboration.

  • Obsidian Innovation Institute – Associação
  • PoliRuralPlus
  • Sierra y Mancha Conquense stakeholders
PoliRuralPlus received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 101136910. Views and opinions expressed are those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
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