Protection, accessibility and use of archaeological landscape. The case study of Villa Sora in Torre del Greco

Within the PhD program in Rischio e sostenibilità nei sistemi dell’ingegneria civile, edile e ambientale (XXXII ciclo), activated at the DiCiv of the University of Salerno, has been undertaken a line of research on the Archaeological Landscape of the Vesuvian coast, which intends to continue in a finally ordered and systematic manner a series of studies conducted more occasionally in previous years. Based on an informal partnership started for some time with the Ufficio scavi of Ercolano and with the Gruppo Archeologico Vesuviano Association on the case study of Villa Sora, an important Roman maritime Villa of the 1st century b.C. whose ruins are located in the territory of the municipality of Torre del Greco, It was signed in July 2017 a Memorandum of Understanding between the Archaeological Park of Pompeii and our Department; the primary purpose of the agreement is, among other things, that of deepening together the conditions of the assets and the archaeological areas of the territory considered, the physical, perceptive and functional relationships between them and the surrounding urban and territorial context and the techniques and more effective methods to promote their protection, accessibility and usability, in a logic of integrated conservation. This contribution is intended to illustrate the results of a first research activity that is underway for Villa Sora under the aforementioned agreement and which concerns a project hypothesis for the protection and arrangement of the archaeological area.