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RUINS PRESERVATION, TRANSFORMATION PROJECTS IN THE OLD TOWN CENTRE OF PALERMO. LINES OF DEVELOPMENT AND NEW PERSPECTIVES

2011

The accumulation of data for an uninterrupted arc of some millennia has suffered a rest, due to the 1943 massive bombings during the last war, and to the damages inflicted to the old town centre: the continuity of the urban and cultural environment, where the buildings live their own history, got broken. The wartime events left “empty spaces” in the historical city, that weren't filled in the following decades, and the ruins which miraculously were still standing up became a memento not only of the wounds caused by World War II, who were still partially open, but also of the following vicissitudes, neglect, carelessness and lack of culture. In 1993, besides passing the P.P.E., the municipal…