Religious buildings and routes of worship. History and recovery issues.

Religious buildings and routes of worship. History and recovery issues.

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The presence on the Italian territory of itineraries of historical cult, along which have arisen networks of religious buildings, offers to the attention a very rich heritage, architectural and landscape, in good part today decommissioned if not reduced in conditions of neglect.Among other examples we note the rich abbeys system, convents and monasteries, functional Night Light to the cult of St.Michael the Archangel, widespread in the Gargano from the sixth century and supported the "sacred way" traveled by pilgrims, often on the track of the oldest routes.

This paper tries to retrace the articulated story of these buildings, on the basis of first-hand documents resulting from accurate measurements of their geometry and their formal structure and residual material.The purpose is not only the suspension networking of building actually inseparable from the territory of belonging, but also the verification of the wide horizon recovery projects.