Castelnuovo: una fortezza dimenticata

• Cosimo Monteleone ^[1] ; Federico Panarotto ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Padua

     University of Padua

     Padova, 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. 1089-1096
• Idioma: italiano
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  • Digital technologies give us the opportunity to apply new methods of analysis while studying urban and architectural transformations related to our cities. So, investigating the evolution and history of a building or a place, animating their different phases of construction or showing virtually how they occur, are topics much easier to achieve today. The common questions are: What did a particular place or building look like a few centuries ago? What are the changes occurred? What events have taken place, bringing they to the current appearances? This essay presents an investigation back in time of an important Renaissance building for the history of Paduan fortifications: Castelnuovo. This fortress was designed by Barolomeo d’Alviano around 1513 soon after the defeat of Venice Republic by the League of Cambrai. Our reconstruction is based on the integration of writings, documents, maps, drawings and outcomes derived from archaeological excavations. So, the focus of this essay is the virtual reconstruction of the fortified building known in Padua as Castelnuovo to show its final design as well as its transformation over time. Indeed, this building was for about a century the subject of a debate, testified by numerous documents, whose aim was to solve defensive needs. This fortress, never completed, is today mostly unknown to citizens, who ignore the extraordinary history and complexity of the building. This happens because the municipal urban plans, applied from the end of the XIX century, have totally changed the original appearance of Castelnuovo, so this fortress has been slowly incorporated into the surroundings. Since it is impossible to erase the changes that has been carried out in the last centuries, our essay proposes to give virtual life to Castelnuovo, adding to the historical research the power of digital survey and representation. Our aim is answering the numerous questions about the appearance of the forgotten fortress.