Gis and 3D digital reconstruction for the valorisation of the ecclesiastical heritage of Viterbo
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Date Issued
2020
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article
Abstract
Viterbo is a city of Lazio in central Italy, seriously damaged by the bombings of the Second World War. The air raids of 1943-1944, affected 45% of the historic centre including 21 ecclesiastical structures. This contribution summarizes part of the results produced within a broader project, named EcoDigit (Digital Ecosystem for the fruition and valorisation of Lazio’s cultural heritage and activities) of the ‘Centro di Eccellenza Distretto Tecnologico Beni e Attività Culturali, DTC Lazio’. The University of Tuscia participates to the project together with the other four universities of Lazio and the research institutes: CNR, ENEA and INFN. The work presented in this paper makes use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for the interactive and multimedia mapping of the ecclesiastical heritage of Viterbo and 3D digital reconstructions for the graphic restitution of a specific ecclesiastical structure, i.e. the church of Santa Maria delle Fortezze, largely destroyed by bombing and now in a state of neglect.