Nel campo dell’archeologia. Indagini del passato contemporaneo al campo PG 65 di Altamura (BA): storie di prigionieri, partigiani e profughi

The archaeological investigations carried out in 2021 in the POW camp known as PG65, near the town of Altamura (Bari, Italy) have begun to highlight the complex materiality of a site that lived well beyond the Second World War, for which it was built in 1940. After the armistice, in 1943, it became a training camp for Yugoslav partisans, and in the 1950s a refugee collection center and it was almost completely razed to the ground at the end of the twentieth century. The careful study of the remains, in addition to showing the signs of the transformations that have taken place over time, poses an important problem on the future of the site, and on a conservation and presentation strategy that can transform it into a site that can tell, together with other sites of the twentieth century widespread in the surrounding landscape, the whole history of the "age of extremes". The presence of an active community that already takes care to keep the attention on the site and its stories alive represents one of the most exemplary cases of heritage communities as envisaged by the Faro Convention.