Storia e tutela delle identità. Spunti per una nuova geografia delle aree di omogeneità culturale. L'abbazia di Borzone in val di Sturla presso Chiavari.

The publication is a part of the conclusions of the research MIUR which has investigated the St.Benedict foundations in Italy, after the Cluny reformation coordinated by Alfonso Gambardella. In the volume about Northern Italy the author collects the results of his research through texts, photographs and drawings referring to the Abbey of Borzone and the territory influenced by it and situated in the central part at the east of the actual province of Genua. The aim has been achieved because the area is uniform both referring to the cultural aspects now belonging to an ancient past and also referring to the material witnesses still largely existing. There are remarkable resemblances of the Abbey and the monumental complex it belongs to ( church, monastery, cloister and service buildings ) and the familiar architecture of the surrounding valley. Surprising analogies have been noticed between the geometrical proportions and the way of workingthe stones used in the nearby buildings and the stones in the wall of the Abbey church of St Andrew. Going on with the research, even the stones , the techniques and the construction elements, used in the historical buildings arranged on the territory of the Tigullio hinterland are similar to those of Borzone, owing to the link with the more important Abbey of St. Colombano in Bobbio. In the Byzantine age and during the whole early Middle Ages, this area was called “ Maritima di Bobbio” also for its characteristics of homogeneity. Surprisingly this work has discovered that the peculiarities of that ancient homogeneity have remained until today. It is necessary to find the suitable forms of defence for these areas of cultural homogeneity through the appointed bodies.