War Gaps. Weaving the narratives of historic urban ruins into the contemporary city

The paper addresses the discourse about war voids, built heritage ruins and correspondently discovered archaeological sites, innovatively observed within a unitary vision in the context of 20th century post-war or conflicts’ reconstruction with the aim to understand the divergent processes investing such sites at different moments. A crucial observatory point relating to Naples and to the area of Carminiello ai Mannesi is proposed because of the strict link therein existing between the pluri-millennial origins and the 20th-century conflict histories.