Geoparks, a UNESCO initiative, are emerging as the 21st century's new territories. Most heritage territories need visibility on the ground so as to offer a territorial image, to justify management and team work, and, above all, to obtain funding. The 21st century Geoparks must have something novel to offer in the broad spectrum of protected and managed nature areas. Geoparks are not just territories to teach geology, since they can become an experimental domain where the perspectives of the philosopher, the writer and the artist can be integrated. Nature areas must be places apart, where visitors will realize they are... elsewhere, in Nature.
