Réflexions sur les tremblements de terre, abandons et identité à travers quelques études de cas en Irpinia

Irpinia is a territory characterised by a strong landscape, urban and cultural identity and, at the same time, subject to a strong seismic risk due to the area's high seismicity, as demonstrated by its frequent earthquakes. On this geomorphologically diverse territory, the marks left by particularly inclement earthquakes (1930, 1962, 1980) and reconstruction interventions are still visible. Past experiences (earthquake of 23 July 1930 in Aquilonia), recent ones (earthquake of 21 August 1962 in Melito Irpino) and nearby post-earthquake reconstructions in Irpinia (earthquake of 23 November 1980 in Bisaccia), show how damage to identity places can be amplified rather than restored and revitalised by reconstruction processes, if these do not make use of a strong and consolidated environmental architectural culture and an already organised heritage of knowledge and intervention methodologies.