Starting from a Story Map for the enhancement of historical landscapes. A case study in the earthquake crater of L'Aquila 2009 (Italy): the village of Collarmele

This research focuses on a spatial enhancement proposal in the Italian earthquake crater of L’Aquila2009,in the Abruzzo region. In particular, the work focused on the village of Collarmele, starting from the creation of a StoryMap presented at last year’s ESRI Conference(10-11 May 2023) and studied more in-depthwithin the research proposals of the “GIS Day” (https://corsidilaurea.uniroma1.it/sites/default/files/brochure_gis_day_dicembre_2023.pdf) organised by the Geography Section of the Departmentof Lettersand Modern Cultures at Sapienza Universityof Rome (December 2023). The analysis highlights the importance of the contribution of geographic studies in post-earthquake reconstruction policies, an issue that is emblematically represented by the lack of correspondence between the boundaries of the Reconstruction Plan and the actual limits of the historic housing fabric. After presenting the contents and functionalities applied to the introductory part of the StoryMap, the work returns the results of a mapping of geo-historical points of interestidentified within the settlement through field research. The identification of the points is the result of an integrated source study methodology, combining historical cartography, scholarly literature, archaeology and oral memory. Moreover, this proposal was tested through a use of the StoryMap at community participation events, showing the importance of geoproducts of this kind in partici-patory processes and territorial education: a potential focal point for local development in inland Italian areas.