Il sistema difensivo dello Stato Pontificio sul versante tirrenico. Nuovi aggiornamenti storici e architettonici per una conservazione compatibile

Abstract

[EN] The essay analyzes the ‘various landscapes’ of the coastal system in the Lazio territory, perceived as a resource, seen as a set of elements settled over time. The proposed research aims to deepen, through some consecutive phases, the anthropization process of the coastal areas. This whole includes various complexes to be safeguarded by a protection program, based on a unitary projectable to include the various and ‘different’ systems of the territory – environmental, landscape, architectural – now closely related to each other in determining the characteristics and quality of the present layout. For their sustainable use i.a. process of knowledge and reading capable is needed in order to re-connect the various places and the various elements to base on History the actions of the present, highlighting historical and artistic connections and instances, in some cases, difficulty to read. The essay analyzes the defensive system of the Lazio coast, along the coastal area of the Tyrrhenian Sea, along the formal Papal State. The historical defensive system, characterized by a compact set of coastal towers, which for century – from the 9th to the 18th century – constituted the defense against raids from the sea, has a main significance. These architectures, dismantled during the second half of the nineteenth century, still represent important historical, architectural and constructive events. Actually, along the Lazio coast, from North to South, there are about 30 towers: some still intact others in state of ruins.