I sistemi di difesa degli antichi borghi peninsulari pugliesi

The objective of this contribution is to explore the defence systems of the Apulian coastal villages in order to grasp comparative aspects of the fortified cities on the sea. The study intends to explore and document the relationships and connections between the natural landscape and the fortified urban landscape. A sort of "multi-layered defensive model", born in the Bronze Age and lasting until the modern age. In Puglia in the Bronze Age, peninsular morphological models emerge born from the ancient flow of water of the erosive furrows "blades" which from the hinterland reach the coast and from the marine erosion they have drawn, where the consistency of the rock diversifies, small peninsulas, served by natural ports (sea outlet of the blades). The ancient coastal villages placed in morphological continuity with the locus observe different links with the sites where they were built, with their topographic characteristics, with the traces of foundation, with the physical-morphological structures of the place, in short with the shape and with the structure of the peninsula.