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L'architettura rurale fortificata in Sicilia

2019

The presence of a difensive system has always been something necessary to control the coastline and to defend the island from the pirat raids. Would be enough to walk along the sicilian coastline to find some of the 218 coast tower and understand how those were only the first line of fortified landascapes, whose actual fisionomy is the result of evolutionary processes occurred over the centuries. The present article wants to be a focus on the rural fortified architecture of Sicily and especially of the Madonie area, where the secolar control of the power from the Ventimiglia nobiliar family has produced a cultural and economical compactness obtained also by the construction of coast towers,…