Spazi in attesa nelle Residenze Sabaude, Patrimonio Mondiale dal 1997. Previsioni di restauro e messa a sistema nell’obiettivo della sostenibilità culturale

Abstract

The Residences of the Royal House of Savoy in Piedmont entered the World Heritage List in 1997: they are elements of a serial site, monumental architecture, gardens and parks, which characterise the former capital city (Turin) and a vast extra-urban territorial segment, on which many restoration and valorisation policies have focused in recent years. However, in their heterogeneity, each of the assets reveals some unresolved spaces, which institutional protection must oversee and simultaneously express particular cultural potential. The contribution aims to illustrate projects developed in contact with the management reality of some of these Residences, in particular Aglié, Govone and Racconigi, in agreement with the preservation institutes and owners. Cogent issues in the debate on restoration emerge, such as, among others, the search for a balance between conservation and innovation and the pursuit of quality in intervention, in the face of a renewed cultural demand affected by the difficult historical period we are going through.