Vol. 33 No. 1 Special Issue, vol. I (2025): Oltre il Novecento. Teoria e prassi per il "Restauro del Moderno"
La patrimonializzazione / Heritagization

La modernità del rurale. Case e villaggi colonici della bonificazione pontina come patrimonio storico da tutelare / Modernity in the rural. Farmhouses and peasant villages of the Pontine reclamation as historical heritage to be protected

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  • Maria Vitiello
Maria Vitiello
Dipartimento di Storia, Disegno e Restauro dell’Architettura, Sapienza Università di Roma
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rar-19105

Published 2025-12-12

Keywords

  • Rural Villages,
  • Pontine Reclamation,
  • Farmhouses,
  • Difficult Heritage

How to Cite

Vitiello, M. (2025). La modernità del rurale. Case e villaggi colonici della bonificazione pontina come patrimonio storico da tutelare / Modernity in the rural. Farmhouses and peasant villages of the Pontine reclamation as historical heritage to be protected. Restauro Archeologico, 33(1 Special Issue, vol. I), 264–269. https://doi.org/10.36253/rar-19105

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Abstract

The reclamation of the Pontine Marshes is one of the most significant events in modern Italian history, marking the complete transformation of a large part of the Lazio landscape. This process involved building canals for environmental recovery, dividing the land, planting trees, and creating a complex network of settlements. In this network, the rural house becomes part of a landscape unit. Its designs are inspired by vernacular architecture, but not by local tradition, making it an ‘invention’ characterised by specific formal, structural, distributional, and decorative features. Today, this cultural heritage is fading away, erased by a sort of oblivion, perhaps due to the unpopularity of its authoritarian origins.

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