LE MURA URBICHE DI CARLENTINI: DAL RESTAURO ALLA GESTIONE DISATTESA

Patrizia Carnazzo1, Vittorio Fiore2

Università degli Studi di Catania, Struttura Didattica Speciale di Architettura, piazza Federico di Svevia, Siracusa

1patriziacarnazzo@tiscali.it, 2vitfiore@gmail.com

ABSTRACT 

The sixteenth-century walls of Carlentini, thanks to an important restoration between 2004 and 2007, are again tangible memory of the city founded in 1552 by Charles V as a military fortress, after a long period of neglect and degradation that had made its very existence forget.

The restoration of the historical monument and the renovation of urban areas adjacent to the walls, selected to exalt their symbolic, strategic and landscape values, had as main objective the restitution of this cultural resource to the city, as document  of  its history, material culture and urban identity.

Unfortunately, intervention’s intentions were soon dismissed, results partially lost, works defaced. It was clear that any management, maintenance and integration strategy to urban structure would have been planned by the town council, owner and manager of the monument.

The paper calls attention to issues related to the maintenance of the town-walls, a restored historical asset open air that can be usable with urban spaces that surround it, weak places as a result of the relationship built /fortified, rehabilitated by the project as strategic ties able to integrate the original defensive system and make its layout readable.

Key-words: conservation, increase in value, integration, identity, sixteenth-century walls