Earthquakes, abandonment, regeneration in Italian inner peripheries. The case of Aquilonia in the campano Apennines/ Terremoti, abbandono, rigenerazione nelle aree interne italiane. Il caso di Aquilonia nell’Appennino Campano

In Italy, inland areas take on peculiar characteristics because of their geomorphological conformation. They are unified by vulnerabilities related to altimetric insulation and seismic hazard. The paper analyzes the relationship that over time is established between the new nucleus and the “abandoned one” and between the surviving parts of ancient villages hit by earthquakes and those rebuilt, as part of the debate on the 'reconstruction' of countries of central Italy affected by the recent earthquakes. Starting from an interpretation of the landscape as archive of the traces of the history of man and nature, testimony of plurisecular transformative works, the paper describes physical, social, economic processes triggered by the earthquake of the Vulture in an ancient village of the Campania Apennines, Aquilonia, highlighting themes and issues common to many inner Italian areas. The research shows how on the one hand the memory recovery is essential for preserving the identity of places and for countering the choice to move away from the place of origin that many young people must make, and on the other hand the importance of the cooperation and of the governance renewal to encourage community resilience processes.