Tomorrow to the Defended book "of a Marine Fort" will be introduced



Tomorrow to Official hours 17,00 to the Circle of Marina Militare of the Defended book "of a Marine Fort will be introduced. Fortifications and artilleries in the Gulf of from 1860 to 1845" written by Stefano Danese, Roberto De Bernardi and Michele Provvedi. To the encounter, besides the authors, they will take part the president of the Harbour Authority of, Lorenzo Forcieri, and the head commander of the Naval department of Alto Tirreno, admiral Andrea Campregher.
The work of Danish, De Bernardi and Provvedi, I yield of along research work and dedicated to the fortifications placed to defense of the gulf of from the Unit of Italy to according to world-wide conflict, it is published by the Harbour Authority of.

"When the authors subjected to my attention I yield job two-year-old - the president of the harbour agency has explained, Lorenzo Forcieri - I considered right to ask for the dispersion of hundred of designs and restored planimetry unknown originals, photographies and historical images. I hope that today this publication, cured from the Study Lead, can supply a contribution to the spreading of one of the many little known aspects, but not less fascinating, of our cultural patrimony. Our city, while it strives in order to value this that has characterized it as military fort of virtue, safeguarding many of the structures described in this test, is deeply changing. Glorious the vestige military, which a lot must our province in terms of development, is in concrete terms following new vocations. Marina Militare, the port, the industry - it has emphasized Forcieri - will continue to being characterizing elements the identity of the territory, but to they it is being added, always demonstrating put up vivacity and resourcefulness, the tourist activity, than from the new one waterfront and from the crocieristica station it will draw a decisive impulse. Contemporary signs will join to pre-existing signs, in a city that does not have more need than protect itself behind a alignment of fortifications, but that it must bravely risk, perceiving all the positività of the change, opening themselves to the future".

Thanking of the availability the Command in Head of the Naval department of Alto Tirreno and the Direction of the Corps of Engineers for Marina, the authors have evidenced that "a study on the coastal fortification could not esimere analyzing the marine fort of. With the exception of the work to prevailing historical character, architectonic or merely catalogativo up to now published - they have specified - he comes here specifically considered the great complex of the defensive works to protection of the primary base of Regia Marina. In order to deepen the acquaintance of the constructive outlines, of the destinations of use, the scopes and the particular functionalities of the strong ones and the efficient batteries, carefully reproduced hundreds of designs are restored and, planimetry, images and accompanied press of age from the current photographies that allow the exploration of the accessible structures and the virtual visit of the sites still militarized or however off limits for the great public".