Le vestigia della Grande Guerra: il contributo della manualistica militare per il riconoscimento delle caratteristiche costruttive delle permanenze.

The militarization projects of the territories drawn up from the mid-nineteenth century in anticipation of the Great War initiated an important moment of deep development and modernization of fortification construction techniques, especially concerning the need to identify new construction and structural methods capable of adequately responding to the rapid evolution of artillery. The remains of vestigia that persist in contemporary landscapes represent the material evidence of these experiments, but their state of neglect and degradation often makes it difficult to recognize them and to understand their related construction/ structural typologies, compromising their chances of preservation and future enhancement. To facilitate the understanding of this heritage, the study of the Fortification Manuals and the elaboration of specific ‘abacuses of comparison’ can help to build a broad and documented knowledge base as a support for the recognition of specific technical and structural features even in fragments of isolated vestiges within the current pluri-stratified landscapes, in perspective of their cure and enhancement.