Tutela dei sistemi fortificati in Campania alla fine del secolo XIX.Le premesse storiche per le attuali politiche di conservazione

• Emanuele Romeo ^[1]
  1. [1] Polytechnic University of Turin

     Polytechnic University of Turin

     Torino, 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. 817-824
• Idioma: italiano
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  • The protection policies of post-unification Italy gave particular importance, as culturally suggested by the safeguard institutions, to medieval architecture and to those complexes that more than others represented “the glory of our past that could not be forgotten”. In this sense, the Conservation Commission of Terra di Lavoro, the current province of Caserta, launched an intense program of identification, cataloging and study of some fortified structures which, more than others, met the aforementioned requirements. For these reasons, attention was focused on two medieval Capuan monuments that represented “the glorious past of the city”: the Frederick II Towers and the Stones Castle. The latter was considered the most attractive element of the Norman fortification system, including the castles of Casaluce and San Felice a Cancello; these, from Napoli to Capua, presided over a significant portion of the Campania plain. If these monuments contributed to insert the history of the province of Caserta in the national panorama, the conservation of the Roman and medieval fortifications of Alife responded, instead, to more specific ante-litteram enhancement actions aimed at the knowledge of the heritage, also triggering processes of economic development of a marginal territory. On the basis of these premises, the contribution aims to highlight, through the analysis of unpublished documents and drawings, how much the aforementioned protection actions, and only partially implemented, were also the basis of the most recent restoration and enhancement interventions of the Capuan complex and the fortified system of Alife.