Borghi storici in Campania, tra abbandono, restauro e opportunità di risignificazione

Italian minor historic centres, which constitute a significant part of our built heritage, have often undergone a gradual process of emigration and abandonment. Numerous causes have led to several migration phases: isolation, difficult accessibility, but also economic changes, a general lack of responsiveness to requirements for modern standards of living comfort, and also natural disaster. This has triggered processes of degradation and depletion of the ‘immaterial’ role of these centres, of their identity role for the population, and also of their function as physical symbols of traditional construction heritage. The proposed paper aims to deepen the speficity of two centres in Campania: Terracorpo and Laureana Cilento, where recent didactic experimentation have led to deepen the knowledge trough innovative diagnostic surveys and deepen the effects of absence of use, care, and maintenance on the built heritage due to depopulation. All this with the aim of identifying the best strategies for the recovery of the existing and for triggering ‘good practise’ to bring the population back to reuse this heritage and to allow its transmission to the future.