Ricerca e documentazione della stratificazione costruttiva del Borgo Castello di Calitri. Riuso e ricostruzioni dopo i grandi eventi sismici

In 1702 Calitri castle appeared as an imposing building with four large corner towers. Numerous seismic events over a millennium have transformed the castle with collapses, renovations and extensions. The earthquake of 1694 determined important transformations and the abandonment of the fortified building. Between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the fortification was decomposed and transformed into an urban village on the remains of the old medieval factories. In the twentieth century, before the 1910 and 1980 earthquakes which damaged the structures, Calitri Castle “borgo”, built on the ruins of the castle and of the city walls, appeared as a large rural village, result of stratified changes in the time. Medieval remains of the Norman and Angevin fortress pertaining to the Castrum and relevant structures of the sixteenth-century Palatium, are visible. The restoration project of the village carried out by the Superintendency is part of a wider project to enhance heritage. The hypotheses of experimental projects for reconstruction in collapsed areas are strategies for re-use and cultural tourism between Campania, Puglia and Basilicata regions. The matter of "to build in built" is a sustainable research in material resources that represents a close link with tradition, identity of the places, history and characters of this landscape.