Natural Stone and World Heritage: Itria Valley and Alberobello, Apulia Region, Italy [Hardcover]

Apulian limestones constitute the historic building constructions of the Puglia region (in the south of Italy) named trulli, but also other stone buildings of the Itria Valley. This book?will serve as a source book to geologists, archaeologists, architects, historians, stone industry operators, travellers, and tourism industry operators.

Chapter 1

1.1 Recognition of heritage stones: UNESCO activities 

1.2 The extension of the Itria Valley

1.3 Archaeological evidence of the territory and historical evolution of the stone landscape

1.4. Landscape characters

Chapter 2

2.1 Ancient and actual quarry in the Itria Valley area

2.2 Main stone buildings technologies and morphotypes of the Itria Valley

2.3 Main lithologies of the area and their properties

2.4 Laboratory tests on selected Itria Valley samples

Chapter 3

3.1 The architecture evolution in the construction of the current image of the stone landscape

3.2 Protection and valorization of architectural stone organisms. Methods of preservation/restoration and safeguard actions

Apulian limestones constitute the historic building constructions of the Puglia region (in the south of Italy) named trulli (representing an outstanding universal value for UNESCO), but also other stone buildings of the well-known Itria Valley. Trulli are drywall (mortarless) constructions made of roughly worked limestone blocks collected from neighbouring fields. The limestone for trulli is quarried from different Apulian localities and, together with another local lithotype, represents the stone heritage of the Itria Valley.

This book begins with an introduction to the region of southern Italy where trulli and otherlĥ