La documentazione delle porte urbiche veronesi: progetto di analisi per la proposta di piani di recupero sul sistema fortificato

In the urban area of Verona, monumental buildings are still visible today, forming a repertoire of almost 2,000 years of history of fortification system. Even today the remains of the Roman fortified city remain, the perimeter of the Scaliger walled city, the bastion structure of the Venetian fortress, the grandiose layout of the Hapsburg stronghold, the cornerstone of the Quadrilatero. The urban city wall in its final structure has a development of over 9 kilometres and occupies almost 100 hectares 1vith its structures: towers, washers, bastions, ditches, embankments. The defensive system of Verona is an impressive cor11piex consisting of bastions, forts, entrenched camps, 1varehouses and barracks, arranged between hills and plains around the city of Verona. Rich in extraordinary examples of military engineering, the stratified defensive system is one of the key points on which the UNESCO declaration of the city is based, expressing an international historical and cultural value waiting to be fully rediscovered and enhanced. The research project, conducted by the experimental laboratory Dada-Lab of the University of Pavia in agreement with the Municipality of Verona, concerns the documentation of the Verona fortified system for the drafting of recovery proposals and redevelopment interventions. In particular, the contribution recounts the experiences carried out in the first year of activity on the documentation of the Sanmicheli monuments, on the analysis of the state of conservation and on the intervention proposals for the enhancement of the heritage.