Different approaches to connectivity from the Middle Ages to the present

The aim of this paper is to discuss three different approaches to reconstructing the connectivity within a given environment over time and in particular from the Middle Ages to the present. The three methods have been applied to three areas in central and northern Italy: a mountainous alpine zone named Feltrino in Veneto region (north-east Italy) (Mascarello 2021), a lowland area between the city of Grosseto and the ancient Roselle (Felicioni 2020), a mountainous marginal region corresponding to Monte Amiata (Paciotti 2021). The common base of this research is the integration and analysis of different kinds of data, in particular historical cartography, in a GIS platform. We opted to use the open-source software Quantum GIS to propose reconstructing the ancient mobility networks. In the present study, we focus on different environmental characteristics, historical sources and analyses processes in order to gain the same objective. This allows involving of much more data and characteristics of the same area rather than applying only one of these methods. Therefore, this way the outcome is a more complete analysis with more plausible results