The buildings for the holiday in the 20 years. The “Vittorino da Feltre” colony in Matera

In Italy, the holiday colonies are an important research field for researchers in recent years. This study - a part of a wide research that involves the whole Basilicata area - has highlighted the spread of marine and heliotherapeutic colonies in the territory. An important part of the study is also represented by the built-landscape relationship that has characterized the area. With the advent of mass tourism, these testimonies have been progressively abandoned, favouring their philological disappearance; in fact, there have been converted to education facilities as the “Vittorino da Feltre” colony in Matera. The study aims to present the first results of a wide research carried out on the holiday constructions made in Basilicata during the Fascism, in particular on the “Vittorino da Feltre” helioterapical colony in Matera; it was built in 1937 by a design of the engineer Vincenzo Corazza. It is the only helioterapical building present on Basilicata area until today, which has not been destroyed in the decades, after the collapse of the fascist regime because it was transformed and readapted in a public school. The analysis of the archival material, the study of the state of the art and the technological characterization of the building made it possible to highlight all the typicalities of this architecture.