La rocca di Staggia Senese: una metodologia applicata nell’ambito del recupero architettonico e funzionale

[EN] At the gates of Chianti, on the Via Francigena, on the border between Florence and Siena, the fortress rises alongside the walled land of Staggia Senese. In documents it is named palàtium or rocca di staja. The term palàtium indicates large stately buildings within a fortified structure. The word rocca refers to a fortification with a garrison, in fact Staggia takes its name from the military stronghold wanted by the Florentine Republic. The name staja recovers the toponym of the market present in the small village, as a center for the production of cereals, products that were weighed with the unit of measurement called stajo. The interventions to create the “museum of itself” concern architectural, structural and functional recovery, with the aim of preserving the identity of the fortification. The studies carried out during and after the works, such as the analyzes of the walls of the village and the verification of a probable intervention by Brunelleschi, will constitute the basis for further research, a methodology applied in the field of restoration, where knowledge becomes synonymous with safeguard.