Resumen de La città e il restauro. La stratificazione dell’area urbana di Trentoletta attraverso le strutture della casa torre Bellesini
With the opening of the restoration site of the compendium of the Gerloni house located in Piazza Duomo in Trento, the Superintendence for Cultural Heritage requested the property owner to integrate the architectural project with the morphological-stratigraphic study on towerhouse Bellesini, part of the architectural complex. It is a medieval building with a quadrangular plant covering an area of 58 square meters, rising to a height of 16 meters. The building insists on Roman pre-existing structures; in particular at the basement level, in the fundo turris, on the wall to the west there are the wall sections of the first Roman wall from the Augustan age against which the second Roman wall (second half of III century AD) is attached. Stone pillars are added to these, which, although not in their original position, are the remains of the ancient Roman secondary gate present on the southwestern perimeter of the city. Between the end of the XII century and the beginning of the XIII century, the tower began to be built on the Roman ruins, which, due to its internal dimensions (26 square meters) and the thickness of the perimeter walls, can be defined as towerhouse (1 meter). The material knowledge on the building through the construction and transformation phases identified according to different construction techniques, architectural elements and plasters becomes a guiding tool for the restoration project. But it also becomes a moment of archaeological insight study on the basis of the discovery by the entrepreneur Francesco Ranzi in 1869. All the information collected is recorded in the database at urban scale and allows us to add a new page to the reconstruction of the development dynamics of the city of Trento throughout the centuries, using the territory and the recognition of the functions that have come in succession.
