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Stigliano (MT)

The municipality of Stigliano, the leader of the inland area SNAI Montagna Materana, presents interesting characteristics due to its geomorphological conformation, geographical position, and traditional local building techniques. Anthropic processes, the rich natural heritage, instability, recent urban planning, and progressive depopulation have determined a heterogeneous context, whose identity, architectural, landscape, and socio-cultural values must be safeguarded and enhanced.

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HISTORIC CENTRE

From the preliminary analysis, extended to the entire historic centre of Stigliano, on buildings, residences, open spaces, streets, and margins, the limits of the experimental area coinciding with the 'Rione Terra' were defined. One of Stigliano's oldest settlements, it historically suffers from the continuous progress of landslide phenomena that have been periodically undermining its built-up area for centuries. These phenomena, accompanied by construction practices that are not always controlled, overload the bedrock, accelerating the phenomena of gravitational creep and generating the undermining of historical architecture.

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URBAN AND LANDSCAPE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE VILLAGE

The inhabited centre of the municipality of Stigliano, located at 770 m above sea level, expresses a close relationship with the surrounding natural environment. Still, its evocative landscape has been partly disfigured by numerous calamitous events that have occurred in the area (from the serious earthquake of 1694 to the continuous landslides, one of which was in 2014 in the 'Serra Rotonda' area), which have led to precarious conditions for the entire system. The municipality has an important historical heritage and, in 1643, when Basilicata was declared an autonomous province, Stigliano became its capital; the current urban fabric is still characterised by historically and culturally significant building stratifications, surrounded by steep-sided escarpments and deep torrential incisions. A large part of the historic centre, identified as Rione Terra, located in the eastern part downstream of the settlement, is depopulated and partly compromised by various calamitous phenomena, culminating in the last relocation (1973) of the inhabitants to the south, to the slopes of an adjacent hill. Rich not only in historical-architectural heritage, Stigliano is recognised throughout the country for its unique initiatives in the field of public art, at the same time being located in the heart of a network of small municipalities that also have a strong potential to attract visitors from an artistic-cultural point of view.  In Stigliano, youth associations, with the contribution of professionals, public and private institutions, schools, academies, and local, national, and international artists act as a driving force for new cultural forms of participation, confrontation, growth and exchange in urban communities. All this makes Stigliano an ideal case study for the GO-IN! whose specific objectives are based on the following characteristics identified in the portion of the historic centre being experimented on traditional building techniques and local materials used for the basic and specialised building (such as the various Palazzi and architectures of historical and cultural interest); direct connection between the features of the urban settlement and the surrounding natural landscape, which entirely touches the historical centre; high degree of hydro-geological fragility and vulnerability, which is the cause of a consistent loss of the built heritage; and strategic geographical position to implement activities aimed at increasing the local tourist, economic and cultural capacity, in continuity with the cultural vocations expressed by the territory.

Ancora 1

RIONE TERRA

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Localisation of the photographic shot

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Valuable architecture

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STIGLIANO YESTERDAY AND TODAY

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