Quota, a struggle of a mountain village to assert its survival

152 Intermediate Conference Firenze 2020 Villages et quartiers à risque d’abandon. Stratégies pour la connaissance, la valorisation et la restauration. 153 Quota, a struggle of a mountain village to assert its survival. Giovanni Pancani The study of the village of Quota, was born from my personal knowledge of the village, and finds its space in the wider work on minor architecture of the Casentino. The village rises on the eastern side of the Pratomagno massif, around which the initial stretch of the Arno river develops, which from its source on Mount Falterona crosses the Casentino valley and laps Arezzo, continuing on to the upper Valdarno in the direction of Florence. With the first studies, which were the subject of the writer’s graduation thesis, the central nucleus of Quota was examined.