Objectives:
- Increasing the importance of tourism and culture as factors stimulating economic growth within the regions, observing, at the same time, the principles of sustainable development and environmental protection
- Extending the tourism season
- Increasing the number of tourists by valuing the local and regional cultural tourism potential on the national and international tourism market.

Categories of eligible beneficiaries:
- Local and central public administration authorities
- Religious institutions organized as legal entities of public utility
- Non-governmental organizations

Eligible informative activities within the project:
- Restoration, protection and preservation of heritage buildings, of their interior paintings, frescoes, exterior murals;
- Restoration/creation of access routes (pedestrian and roads) to the rehabilitated sites within their area of protection;
- New works and equipment meant to ensure inside and outside lighting, safety lighting as well as decorative lighting;
- Restoration and remodeling of facades;
- Landscape setting up facilities for highlighting the restored heritage tourism attraction;
- Interior equipping (installations and equipment ensuring air-conditioning, fire safety, burglary prevention conditions);
- Modernization of utilities related to the heritage site (electricity, water supply, sewerage);
- Equipment for the presentation and protection of the tangible and intangible cultural heritage;
- Establishing protection areas by delimiting and surrounding the heritage site (there where the case may be);
- Construction of utility annexes (parking sites, restrooms, advertisements and signs);
- Establishing/marking tourism routes/cultural itineraries to the rehabilitated tourism sites;
- Building / rehabilitating / setting up the access path to the rehabilitated tourism sites.

Approximate financial allocation for this area of intervention of the Bucharest-Ilfov region is of 20.85 million Euros.
The open project call for the 5.1 key area of intervention was launched on March, 14th 2008.