Il Castello Carlo V di Monopoli. Restauro delle facciate prospicientiil Porto Vecchio

• Piernicola Cosimo Intini ^[1] ; Piero Intini ^[1] ; Angelamaria Quartulli ^[2]
  1. [1] Architetto, Noci (BA), Italy
  2. [2] Soprintendenza A.B.A.P. Bari, Bari, Italy
• 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. 637-644
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  • The Carlo V Castle stands in a strategic position defending the port and a long portion of the walls of the maritime city of Monopoli. Built as part of the fortification works of the cities of the Kingdom by Pedro Álvarez de Toledo y Zúñiga (Salamanca, 1484 - Florence, 1553), viceroy of Naples in 1532, it would have been built starting from some pre-existing structures: the church dedicated to San Nicola in Pinna, whose presence is attested between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, and a Roman gate of the first century BC, raised on the Messapian walls of the fifth century BC. Completed in 1552, it underwent uninterrupted and documented works of expansion, demolition, adaptation, reuse which altered the conformation of the defensive and residential structures, such as the demolition of the ‘diamond tip’ spur in 1953 or even more recent interventions of ‘liberation’ of alleged superfetations. The restorations carried out between the end of the twentieth century and the early years of the twenty-first century, useful for returning the manor to use after a long period of neglect, made it possible to stem the state of instability made worse by the peculiar climatic-environmental and material conditions of the building, with the limits deriving from use of invasive and not compatible techniques, which have led to the need for new maintenance interventions after many years. The recent conservation works that involved the facades overlooking the Old Port, completed in 2022, preceded by diagnostic investigations, photogrammetric and archival surveys, are to be considered as a functional and preparatory case study for both the completion of the restoration of the remaining surfaces , characterized by peculiar forms of degradation due to the different exposure to prevailing winds, the position with respect to the coast line and the measures adopted in previous intervention occasions, supporting the verification of structural still open problems.