The castle at the top of the fortress, few houses and some bell towers kept together by the main ring-shaped street enclosing the cliff. That’s how it can be summarised the shape of Savoca. Like hundreds of small urban settlements Savoca is a Sicilian village built stone by stone over time. For these reasons Savoca can be taken as a model. Savoca is born with the construction of the castle on the summit plateau of the Mount Pentefur. Those who had determined the definitive configuration of the fortress have been the Norman. The settlement arises in a natural and almost uninhabitable environment, between deep valleys and steep slopes. This was the perfect place for those who were seeking an easy defendable site. Since here nature limits the constructive strategies, inhabitants are forced to build in a similar way. That’s the reason why Savoca, and all the village like it, appears as a uniform construction, as a monolith. Nowadays the castle dominates the urban settlement although there is no connection between them. The subject of the study is making accessible the plateau of the Mount Pentefeur to everyday life. This aim has been carried on following the same constructive principle that has built the urban space, along the time: digging and modelling the cliff with stairs and terraces. This strategy has determined both the connection between isolated areas and the emphasis of the irregular natural lines due to the precision of human construction.

Costruire una tradizione: il castello nel paesaggio dei Peloritani

Matteo Pennisi
2020-01-01

Abstract

The castle at the top of the fortress, few houses and some bell towers kept together by the main ring-shaped street enclosing the cliff. That’s how it can be summarised the shape of Savoca. Like hundreds of small urban settlements Savoca is a Sicilian village built stone by stone over time. For these reasons Savoca can be taken as a model. Savoca is born with the construction of the castle on the summit plateau of the Mount Pentefur. Those who had determined the definitive configuration of the fortress have been the Norman. The settlement arises in a natural and almost uninhabitable environment, between deep valleys and steep slopes. This was the perfect place for those who were seeking an easy defendable site. Since here nature limits the constructive strategies, inhabitants are forced to build in a similar way. That’s the reason why Savoca, and all the village like it, appears as a uniform construction, as a monolith. Nowadays the castle dominates the urban settlement although there is no connection between them. The subject of the study is making accessible the plateau of the Mount Pentefeur to everyday life. This aim has been carried on following the same constructive principle that has built the urban space, along the time: digging and modelling the cliff with stairs and terraces. This strategy has determined both the connection between isolated areas and the emphasis of the irregular natural lines due to the precision of human construction.
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