The system of forts of Rome

With the sesquicentennial anniversary of the unification, we believe it may be of interest to focus on the choices and strategies made in the field of defense by the newborn Italian. Among the possible sites considered by a committee as "sensitive", the choice fell on Rome, the new capital of the Kingdom of Italy. The construction of the Roman fortress system was then started in 1877 to end in 1891. Once completed the building of the defense system, it resulted anachronistic undergoing in time a series of adjustments and transformations, operated by the army, which still retained the property until a few years ago. As most of the artifacts is now in charge of municipal administration, the lack of funds still does not allow the possibility of conversion to the use of citizenship. There are no suitable documentation of the complex system, still preliminary to any type of recovery or reuse. We think that this fort architecture could be considered emblematic of the treated area, the Roman one, and at the same time, of the building military art at the half of the nineteenth century. Given the size and architectural characteristics of the sites, we value as fundamental a targeted intervention aimed at understanding the documentation as well as at future opportunities for intervention by outlining a possible line of inquiry learning