Elementi fortificati dal territorio di Palmi e Seminara: la cittadelladi Carlopoli

• Francesco Stilo ^[1] ; Lorella Pizzonia ^[1]
  1. [1] Università degli Studi ‘Mediterranea’, Reggio Calabria, 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. 1163-1170
• Idioma: italiano
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  • The study presents the results of an investigation relating to an almost completely disappeared fortification,today made up of a few fragments, within the territorial context of Palmi and Seminara (RC), in Calabria.The fortified citadel of Carlopoli, built between 1559 and 1566, was designed according to the canonsof trace italienne fortification, in one of its most elementary schemes, with four bastioned corners and arectangular plan. Today little remains of the mighty walls: a portion of the north-west corner bastion and,presumably, a trace of the curtain walls of the south elevation, surmounted by more recent buildings. Areading of the iconographic sources referable to the fortification itself or to fortified elements related to itis proposed. After the execution of a photogrammetric survey, a planimetric reconstruction highlights thegeometric ratio used by the unknown designer. Carlopoli could therefore represent a case of fortificationbuilt essentially for dissuasive and representative purposes at the same time, a wall built to discourage thelanding of raiders, and to celebrate the prestige of the Spinelli family: a symbol of power to be exhibitedto the sailors of the Strait of Messina. From an urbanistic point of view, it can be said that the citadel wasconfigured as an element around which the events of the city developed, an architecture around which thehistorical and urban developments of the city are based, perhaps ephemeral, but decisive in the historicalmorphological definition of a territory in continuous and rapid transformation.