Architettura militare e paesaggio tra storia, conservazione e riuso

Following the D.L. n. 85/2010 on the federal state property and in agreement with the MIBACT, the Genoa’s Fortifications System entered theavailability of the Municipality of Genoa which is looking for shared solutions to the conservation and enhancement of this unique heritage. It is an architectural and territorial system of high landscape value formed by walls and fortifications built between the seventeenth and nineteenth century. Quezzi tower, the last still intact of twelve circular towers isolated in the Genoa’s military fortifications, built in the nineteenth century, nowadays is in ruin state of conservation. The adopted criteria aimed to the enhancement and conservation of this original building, lay down the foundations for a larger redevelopment project of all the Genoa’s fortifications system on the height of the city.