L’ACQUEDOTTO STORICO DI GENOVA: QUARANTA CHILOMETRI DI VALORI DA SCOPRIRE E CONSERVARE

Anna Decri1, Cristina Pastor2

1 Iscum - Istituto di Storia della Cultura Materiale, Genova, adecri@iscum.it

2 .Soprintendenza per i Beni Architettonici e Paesaggistici della Liguria, cristina.pastor@beniculturali.it

ABSTRACT

This paper wants to show how you can approach the themes of knowledge, of the valorisation and of the conservation of  a ancient manufacture, very wide and so well engaged in the landscape that it seems to merge with it.

For this work cooperated many different organizations, as Iscum, Fondazione Amga, Regione Liguria, Provincia di Genova, Comune di Genova, Direzione Regionale Beni Culturali e Paesaggistici della Liguria and University, and together in the last few years they carried out an important work of activation of resources and people for the “Valorisation, promotion and preservation of the Ancient Aqueduct”.

In this field Iscum carried out a work of cataloguing of the manufacture with different aim: the predisposition of the ICCD files, the gathering of data about the material and the deterioration of the individual stretch of the Aqueduct and the comparison with what is known in literature.

From these data systematically gathered you could clarify different aspects of the constructive history of the manufacture and of the mechanism of its deterioration.

At this point it’s possible to set a program of conservation, which gives us some criteria to minimize the intervention and maximize the compatibility of them.

We are talking about creating an operating manual for the site which will illustrate the various methodologies of intervention for the extraordinary and ordinary repairs compatible with the preservation and conservation of the Ancient Aqueduct.

Key-words: Methods of research, analysis and evaluation.  Aqueduct, materials and tecniques. Conservation.