Le Casematte in Calabria. Architetture di un sistema difensivo delNovecento

• Maria Rossana Caniglia ^[1]
  1. [1] Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria

     Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria

     Reggio Calabria, Italia

     
• Localización: FORTMED2023. Defensive architecture of the mediterranean : vol. XIII, XIV, XV / Marco Giorgio Bevilacqua (dir. congr.), Denise Ulivieri (aut.), 2023, ISBN 978-84-1396-129-3, págs. 457-464
• Idioma: italiano
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  • In the early years of the Second World War, in compliance with the 1941 directive “Difesa delle frontiere marittime”, a defence system centred on bunkers, batteries and casemates was built along the Mediterranean coast, structures in many cases still preserved, in many others now lost. The casemates, in particular, were built in concrete on the basis of plans drawn up by the Genio Militare, with varying shapes and sizes to respond to the functions for which they were intended and distributed over the territory in relation to tactical criteria of control and capacity to respond to enemy attack. The of Calabria, compared to the better known examples of Sardinia and Sicily, represents a new and unexplored case. On this occasion, the intention is to focus on the casemates scattered across the territory, verifying and identifying their typology, their distribution and their relationship with the topography of the place. Today, these architectures, traces of the palimpsests of places, appear as small ‘forts’ suspended between the land and the sea, camouflaged with the surrounding landscape or even assailed by nature and concealed by the urban infrastructure that has taken over.