The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XLVIII-M-2-2023 29th CIPA Symposium “Documenting, Understanding, Preserving Cultural Heritage: Humanities and Digital Technologies for Shaping the Future”, 25–30 June 2023, Florence, Italy, 2023
From Rome to Benevento, the Appian Way (Via Appia Antica) was born as a military road, 'Regina Vi... more From Rome to Benevento, the Appian Way (Via Appia Antica) was born as a military road, 'Regina Viarum'. In 312 b.C., consul Appio Claudio extended the infrastructure for 132 miles to Capua. Many transformations and integration occurred across the centuries, resulting in a unique multi-stratified world heritage (landscape, architecture, archaeological remains and tombs along the military way). In the 19 th century, Luigi Canina conceived the Appian Way as an outdoor museum, realizing a first state-own section along the 12km here surveyed and described. This year, the Ministry of Culture (MIC) has launched the UNESCO nomination for the road. The article discusses aspects of the mass digitization undertaken by the Parco Archeologico dell'Appia Antica (PAAA, the Archaeological Park of the Appian Way). The aim is to build a Digital Twin of the infrastructure supporting knowledge enhancement, preservation, design, communication and fruition. A virtual space where digital technologies and eXtended Reality are the digital arms of the contemporary Vitruvian humanistic mission and vision of the PAAA Appian Way as a source of wealth and healthiness for all the users and visitors. * Corresponding author, M. Previtali responsible for the Geomatics paragraphs, C. Stanga responsible for the 3D modelling and XR paragraphs.
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The Parco Archeologico dell’Appia Antica is an autonomous institute of the Italian Ministry of Culture, providing protection and enhancement of a vast territory that extends from the city center to the Roman countryside, in which archeology and landscape come together in an outstanding context. Following the COVID 19 pandemic, which caused a long period of difficulty, a new season of opportunities for scientific knowledge, conservation, and enhancement of the Parco Archeologico archaeological sites begins today. In the following years, the Parco will undertake a complex series of interventions that will include investigating new archeological sites, scientific research, restoration as part of a general project called “Urbs. From the city to the Roman Campagna”. The works will be implemented with funding from the National Plan for Complementary Investments to the NRRP between 2022 and 2026. The interventions will cover all the archaeological and monumental areas owned by the State in the Parco territory, located along the two main ancient roads of the region: the Via Appia and the Via Latina. This presentation aims to emphasize the contribution of archaeological sciences to a complex system of interventions and projects aimed at increasing the public’s enjoyment of an archaeological context that is unique in the world.
the relationship between man and the environment.
Abstract : The proposed territorial analysis originates from the protection activities of Appia Antica Archaeological
Park within a project of redevelopment and opening to the public of the spaces of Tormarancia estate.
This area represents a real "wreck" of Campagna Romana, painstakingly rescued from building speculation
and now poised between an abandoned area and a nature reserve with strong environmental and cultural
contents.The archaeological excavations carried out have brought to light a modern age pozzolana quarry,
probably in use between the 17th and early 19th centuries. The excavation made it possible to reconstruct a
real landscape of production, based on the large-scale extraction of pozzolanic sands, particularly sought after
as a valuable building material, to be added to the lime to increase its plasticity, cohesion and durability characteristics,
even in humid environments. Among all the Roman quarries, those in this area represent a real
organic system of extraction and exploitation of resources, which takes particular advantage of the proximity
to the S. Paolo bight of Tevere. Here modern-era cartographies show a "pozzolans port", i.e. a point of embarkation
to bring the material to the port of Ostia - exploiting the Tevere - where it could be marketed on a
large scale. Starting from 1614 and throughout the modern era, it was precisely the important and flourishing
market of Genoa that imported Roman pozzolana as an additional element in hydraulic mortars, used in port
works, in aqueducts and where it was necessary to have a lime resistant to water. The contemporary landscape
and the indefinite condition of the places have now erased the traces of a recent past. The establishment of an
environmental and landscape archeology park could represent the right interpretative key to guarantee a level
of protection and use, aware of the cultural values of this specific area of the Roman countryside.
This study is focused on the analysis of what remains of the references to the Del Balzo-Orsini family which were placed in churches, palaces and fortifications of the cities of Taranto and Lecce, capital cities of the Principality of Taranto. These inscriptions and coats of arms have been
partially published in the past without ever being studied in-depth and compared from the historical and iconographic point of view. The evidence underlines an imposing will of self-representation of this emerging family branch together with the families related to it. Even in the
short span of a few decades, the members of this family erected absolutely peculiar buildings and urban structures. These familiar “traces”,
once connected and contextualized, will contribute to enhancing the historical and artistic knowledge recorded in the last decades on the transition age in the fiefdoms of the Kingdom of Naples and in particular on the so-called Orsinian Age.
The Parco Archeologico dell’Appia Antica is an autonomous institute of the Italian Ministry of Culture, providing protection and enhancement of a vast territory that extends from the city center to the Roman countryside, in which archeology and landscape come together in an outstanding context. Following the COVID 19 pandemic, which caused a long period of difficulty, a new season of opportunities for scientific knowledge, conservation, and enhancement of the Parco Archeologico archaeological sites begins today. In the following years, the Parco will undertake a complex series of interventions that will include investigating new archeological sites, scientific research, restoration as part of a general project called “Urbs. From the city to the Roman Campagna”. The works will be implemented with funding from the National Plan for Complementary Investments to the NRRP between 2022 and 2026. The interventions will cover all the archaeological and monumental areas owned by the State in the Parco territory, located along the two main ancient roads of the region: the Via Appia and the Via Latina. This presentation aims to emphasize the contribution of archaeological sciences to a complex system of interventions and projects aimed at increasing the public’s enjoyment of an archaeological context that is unique in the world.
the relationship between man and the environment.
Abstract : The proposed territorial analysis originates from the protection activities of Appia Antica Archaeological
Park within a project of redevelopment and opening to the public of the spaces of Tormarancia estate.
This area represents a real "wreck" of Campagna Romana, painstakingly rescued from building speculation
and now poised between an abandoned area and a nature reserve with strong environmental and cultural
contents.The archaeological excavations carried out have brought to light a modern age pozzolana quarry,
probably in use between the 17th and early 19th centuries. The excavation made it possible to reconstruct a
real landscape of production, based on the large-scale extraction of pozzolanic sands, particularly sought after
as a valuable building material, to be added to the lime to increase its plasticity, cohesion and durability characteristics,
even in humid environments. Among all the Roman quarries, those in this area represent a real
organic system of extraction and exploitation of resources, which takes particular advantage of the proximity
to the S. Paolo bight of Tevere. Here modern-era cartographies show a "pozzolans port", i.e. a point of embarkation
to bring the material to the port of Ostia - exploiting the Tevere - where it could be marketed on a
large scale. Starting from 1614 and throughout the modern era, it was precisely the important and flourishing
market of Genoa that imported Roman pozzolana as an additional element in hydraulic mortars, used in port
works, in aqueducts and where it was necessary to have a lime resistant to water. The contemporary landscape
and the indefinite condition of the places have now erased the traces of a recent past. The establishment of an
environmental and landscape archeology park could represent the right interpretative key to guarantee a level
of protection and use, aware of the cultural values of this specific area of the Roman countryside.
This study is focused on the analysis of what remains of the references to the Del Balzo-Orsini family which were placed in churches, palaces and fortifications of the cities of Taranto and Lecce, capital cities of the Principality of Taranto. These inscriptions and coats of arms have been
partially published in the past without ever being studied in-depth and compared from the historical and iconographic point of view. The evidence underlines an imposing will of self-representation of this emerging family branch together with the families related to it. Even in the
short span of a few decades, the members of this family erected absolutely peculiar buildings and urban structures. These familiar “traces”,
once connected and contextualized, will contribute to enhancing the historical and artistic knowledge recorded in the last decades on the transition age in the fiefdoms of the Kingdom of Naples and in particular on the so-called Orsinian Age.