Il castello di Castel Volturno: un esame tipologico e costruttivo

• Luigi Guerriero ^[1] ; Francesco Miraglia ^[2]
  1. [1] Centro ICT per i Beni Culturali, Università di Salerno, Italia
  2. [2] Dipartimento di Architettura e Disegno Industriale, Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 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. 629-636
• Idioma: italiano
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  • The paper presents the results of a study on the castle of Castel Volturno, located in Terra di Lavoro (Campania region). This important complex was erected, with the connected fortified village, near the Roman site of Volturnum as a coastal garrison of Capua and originated from the reconfiguration of the surviving structures of a bridge from the Flavian age located not far from the mouth of Volturno river. The research proposes a stratigraphic examination of the elevations of the castle, which made it possible to identify the remains of the classical bridge, the fortress of the 9th century and complex late medieval and modern phases. Some observations are also proposed regarding the residential typologies of the annexed castrum, where there are numerous Romanesque houses realized with tuff stones, unique in the early medieval southern context, generally characterized by wooden houses.