Case-torri del Tirreno cosentino
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Rosario Chimirri [1]
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[1] University of Calabria
University of Calabria
Cosenza, Italia
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- 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. 509-516
- Idioma: italiano
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Resumen
Calabria is the mainland Italian region with the longest coastal circuit, in the centre of the Mediterranean, for centuries scene of continuous invasions. Consequential are the numerous and different defensive structures, among which the tower-houses of the Tyrrhenian coast of Cosenza, in the territory of Fiumefreddo Bruzio, are of certain importance. It concerns fortified rural buildings, equipped with sighting towers, built from the fifteenth century to the modern age. They protect properties connected to agricultural activities and the historic village, which is surrounded by them. The models are of cultured and traditional matrices mixed, referring to the cultures that have taken root in the territory, including the Arab one. The military features are relevant: the battlements, the cubic module, the loopholes, the narrow and elongated openings, and the traces of drawbridges. Made of stone and lime walls, they characterize the landscape, of which they represent historical cornerstones, recently, in truth, a little altered.
