The digital documentation of the mountain village of Rocca Ricciarda: between medieval and modern archeology

Rocca Ricciarda is a mountain village located on the slopes of Pratomagno, in the municipality of Loro Ciufenna (AR). In medieval times the site was known to be part of that system of fortifications neces- sary for the control of mountain passes: the fortress of the village, known since 1191, later became the property of the Guidi Counts; today only the archaeological remains remain, on a rocky spur at the en- trance of the village, recently brought to light by excavations conducted by the University of Florence. In 2017 started a research aimed at creating an archive of morphological and three-dimensional data: that data documented the architecture of the historic village, which was completely rebuilt after a fire after the Second World War. The documentation of the historic village was created by planning a cam- paign of instrumental surveys that reconstructed the entire three-dimensionality of the historic village: both range-based acquisitions with laser scanners and image-based acquisitions were conducted for the creation of accurate three-dimensional models of the architectures, through SfM procedures. This pa- per reconstructs the various phases and methodologies used for the registration and quality certifica- tion of three-dimensional survey data; the graphic restitution process of the two-dimensional technical drawings, which describe the morphology of each building that forms the village, has been particularly deepened. Material information has been added to the technical drawings thanks to the elaboration of accurate orthoimages of each facade of the buildings. The village has also been represented in its land- scape value by creating environmental sections, on a general scale, useful for describing the morpholo- gy of the territory and the attention paid to creating the mountain settlement.