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Dispersed throughout the Venetian lagoon, the city’s fortifications still leave traces indicating an impressive military war-defence system dating back to various periods that need projects geared towards their safeguarding and valorisation. From this viewpoint, military abandonment can be seen as an extraordinary occasion for the recovery of such places for the general public; and this of course does not only apply to the area of Venice. Concurrently however, it is the very desertion of these military structures that also represents the serious risk of a rapid and progressive decay and decline due to a lack of programmed interventions for the recovery of their physical and cultural values. The single actions of restoration alone will not suffice in generating a consistent flow of visitors to the military garrisons if there is not also a cultural project capable of setting forth reflections on the historic reasons that brought these unique structures to becoming part of a true system of defence to protect the lagoon. Therefore, inverting these viewpoints, such places can be seen today as garrisons for those values of culture and landscape upheld by Venice and its Lagoon. The Venetian forts can, in this sense, be viewed as a constellation map of places to be jointly configured as an extraordinary system of great potential, relating both to the understanding of the lagoon’s landscape and to the experimentation of new methods and strategies for sustainable tourism. From places tied to war (or defence), the forts can be transformed into places for an education of history; as places to develop one’s knowledge of nature and perception of the landscape, ultimately becoming opportunities for the economic revitalization of the areas in which they reside. The experimentation, albeit conducted for didactic purposes, could act as an innovative reading of the role of abandoned military buildings, not only in the immense planar waterscape of Venice’s lagoon, but also in those European regions that are so strongly marked by abandoned, or soon-to-be abandoned military facilities. Authors Lamberto Amistadi, Marco Ballarin, Alessandro Bonadio, Primož Bizjak, Renata Codello, Alberto Ferlenga, Chiara Ferro, Mauro Marzo, Maria Salerno, Alessandra Taverna, Claudia Tessarolo, Giulio Testori.
Twenty-three contributions by leading archaeologists from across Europe explore the varied forms, functions and significances of fortified settlements in the 8th to 10th centuries AD. These could be sites of strongly martial nature, upland retreats, monastic enclosures, rural seats, island bases, or urban nuclei. But they were all expressions of control - of states, frontiers, lands, materials, communities - and ones defined by walls, ramparts or enclosing banks. Papers run from Irish cashels to Welsh and Pictish strongholds, Saxon burhs, Viking fortresses, Byzantine castra, Carolingian creations, Venetian barricades, Slavic strongholds, and Bulgarian central places, and coverage extends fully from northwest Europe, to central Europe, the northern Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Strongly informed by recent fieldwork and excavations, but drawing also where available on the documentary record, this important collection provides fully up-to-date reviews and analyses of the archaeology of the distinctive settlement forms that characterized Europe in the Early Middle Ages.
A 1985 historical study of a group of villages and one small town, that lie in the lagoons surrounding Venice.
Footprintfocus Verona and Lake Garda is the only dedicated guide available covering this popular Italian destination. Features an Essentials section with practical tips to help plan a trip, detailed information on attractions and comprehensive listings of where to eat, sleep and have fun. • Essentials section with tips on getting there and around • Up-to-date recommendations of great places to stay and eat • Highlights map of the region plus detailed street maps where relevant • Slim enough to fit in a pocket Loaded with advice and information on how to get around, this concise Footprintfocus guide will help travellers get the most out of Verona and Lake Garda without weighing them down. The content of the Footprintfocus Verona and Lake Garda guide has been extracted from Footprint's Italian Lakes guide.
In this collection leading international authorities analyse the structures and economic functions of non-agrarian centres between ca. 500 and 1000 A.D. – their trade, their surrounding settlements, and the agricultural and cultural milieux. The thirty-one papers presented at an international conference held in Bad Homburg focus on recent archaeological discoveries in Central Europe (Vol.1), as well as onthose from southeastern Europe to Asia Minor (Vol. 2).
A globetrotting, time-bending, wildly entertaining masterpiece hailed by the New York Times Book Review as "Audaciously well written...the book I was raving about to my friends before I'd even finished it." Publishers Weekly raved that "with near-universal appeal . . . Seay’s debut novel is a true delight, a big, beautiful cabinet of wonders that is by turns an ominous modern thriller, a supernatural mystery, and an enchanting historical adventure story." Set in three cities in three eras, The Mirror Thief calls to mind David Mitchell and Umberto Eco in its mix of entertainment and literary bravado. The core story is set in Venice in the sixteenth century, when the famed makers of Venetian glass were perfecting one of the old world's most wondrous inventions: the mirror. An object of glittering yet fearful fascination—was it reflecting simple reality, or something more spiritually revealing?—the Venetian mirrors were state of the art technology, and subject to industrial espionage by desirous sultans and royals world-wide. But for any of the development team to leave the island was a crime punishable by death. One man, however—a world-weary war hero with nothing to lose—has a scheme he thinks will allow him to outwit the city's terrifying enforcers of the edict, the ominous Council of Ten . . . Meanwhile, in two other Venices—Venice Beach, California, circa 1958, and the Venice casino in Las Vegas, circa today—two other schemers launch similarly dangerous plans to get away with a secret . . . All three stories will weave together into a spell-binding tour-de-force that is impossible to put down—an old-fashioned, stay-up-all-night novel that, in the end, returns the reader to a stunning conclusion in the original Venice . . . and the bedazzled sense of having read a truly original and thrilling work of art.
This is the first volume in a new series of Hypogean Archaeology aiming to promote the archaeological, architectonical, speleological and historical investigation of artificial cavities. This volume covers the first 55 index cards relating to the underground works registered in the Italian regions of Lombardy, Piedmont and Tusacany. Intended as an initial contribution to the classification and knowledge of artifical cavities, the cadastre includes a "Classification of artificial cavities by typology", essential for an understanding of the vast range of underground cavities.