Restoration Ruins - Assessment and Conservation of Ruins

The construction sites of castles (mostly inaccessible peaks) and the long periods of neglect have led to extreme situations where the wreckage of the walls defy the anger of centuries. The conservation of walls is a difficult task but necessary in order to leave to posterity examples of ways of living so far away from our habits

Living in History
Restoration with Minimum Intervention
Creating Museums in Historical Structures
Assessment and Conservation of Ruins	Fortress of Cerbaia, Cantagallo
Saving the Memory	Fortress of Pietracassia, Lajatico
New Life for Old Ruins	Sigillina Fortress, Filattiera
Publications	Fortress of Villa Basilica
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Sigillina Fortress

Filattiera (MS)

Commissioned by the City of Filattiera (MS). - In medieval times a fortress called Rocca di Valsazulina was built on a spur of the Apennines. The peculiarity of this construction lies in the fact that the builders “isolated” a spur by digging a deep cut in its back and covered the rock surface with a masonry. The Fortress, abandoned in the eighteenth century, seems now disappeared but with a patient work of restoration they have been trying for years to bring out the original masonry wall to reinforce the wall structure survived. Particular problems also exist for those points where the rock is flaking. In those points they proceeded with the installation of a wire mesh.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nicola Gallo architetto