Craco, landscape as Heimat

Authors

  • Claudia Rita Calitro
  • Maria Antonietta Catella

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1602/6474

Keywords:

Craco, Landscape, Historical centers, Recovery, Places of worship

Abstract

Craco, a typical village in the Apennine’s chain, almost completely abandoned in the sixties, following a hydro-geologic landslide, is the prototypical medieval village of the Italian region of Lucania. Its polysemic landscape around which hovers a kind of sacredness of time, draws an ontological dimension, that of the man who is conscious of existing in a relationship with nature, representing the intent of a growing number of visitors and the cinematographic world, in search not only of an aesthetic drift, but above all an archetypal reality, the inherent spirituality of this almost biblical landscape, its memories and narrations. It is then possible to think of a conservation project which would enhance certain civil and ecclesiastical buildings of the village, aiming to promote their current vocation.

References

E. Turri, Semiologia del paesaggio italiano, Longanesi, Milano 1979

C. Levi, Cristo si è fermato ad Eboli, Einaudi, Torino 1963

M. Romano, La città come opera d’arte, Einaudi, Torino 2008

E. Turri, Il paesaggio e il silenzio, Marsilio, Venezia 2004

D. D’Angella, Note storiche sul comune di Craco, I.M.D. Lucana, Pisticci 1986

Published

2017-07-31

How to Cite

Calitro, C. R., & Catella, M. A. (2017). Craco, landscape as Heimat. IN_BO. Ricerche E Progetti Per Il Territorio, La Città E l’architettura, 8(11), 500–515. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1602/6474

Issue

Section

Architecture and Landscape