Resumen de La via dei castelli lungo il fiume Sele
Campania boasts the largest river basin in southern Italy and, among the instruments that guarantee its protection and enhancement, there are river contracts. The river contract is a strategic-programmatic tool that, through a bottom-up approach, aims at the proper management of water resources and the enhancement of the surrounding territories. While this is true and we consider the protection of Campania’s natural resources to be one of our priorities, it is equally true that the region is densely characterized by an important artistic and cultural heritage scattered throughout the territory, evidence of the most ancient civilizations that have inhabited it. This is the case of the fortifications and castles one encounters along the coasts and river territories of Campania, architectures that, although now mostly in a state of ruins, tell us the history of these places. The idea of the project therefore stems from the desire to integrate the work carried out by the river contracts to safeguard the natural heritage, with a systematic study of Campania’s fortifications aimed, instead, at enhancing the cultural heritage. In particular, starting from the Sele-Tanagro-Calore salernitano river contract, which is currently being implemented, what could be defined as a ‘route of the castles’ has been identified, which, running along the banks of the Sele, starts from the source of the river in the municipality of Caposele and reaches its mouth, near Capaccio Paestum.
