Natural Stone and World Heritage

Rossana Bellopede is enrolled at the Politecnico di Torino as Associate Professor in the scientific sector ING/IND 29 (Raw Material Engineering). She is the author of more than 110 papers published in international journals, conference proceedings and as book chapters with an H index 13. She makes lessons and laboratories of the following courses at the Politecnico di Torino: “Planning of Sustainable Mining”, “Raw and Waste Materials Engineering", "Occupational Safety Engineering ", “Circular Economy in Building and Construction Sector”, “Environmental Management of Soil, Water and Groundwater in Geoengineering”. Her research activity has been developed on recovery and treatment of solid waste focusing also to the safety issues, durability of natural stone, bowing of natural stone slabs, testing to asbestos content measure, detection and recently on identification of microplastics in environmental samples. She is responsible for Marble Laboratory and Multimodal Laboratory at DIATI – Politecnico di Torino. She is expert of Technical Committee of CEN 246 “Natural Stone” inside WG2 “Test Method” and of ISO TC 327 Natural Stones. She is actively collaborating with the national association in mining sector (ANIM) and in the international association on mineral processing and extractive metallurgy for mining and recycling of raw materials (PROMETIA). She is one of the inventors of a National Patent on the Recycling of the tantalum from the capacitors. Angelamaria Quartulli is an architect specialized in monument restoration at the "La Sapienza" University of Rome, graduated in public management, studied the issues of consolidation in depth during the training structural and restoration of stone surfaces. In the roles of the Ministry of Culture since 2012, in recent years she has dealt with architectural protection and landscape of the south-east of Bari, has published numerous essays on the restoration of architectural surfaces and on the image of the city, she directed restoration works especially in the context of the ecclesiastical heritage between the 17th and 18th centuries. She participated in the technical table for the drafting of the territorial landscape plan regional (PPTR). She dealt with accessibility in historic centers promoting on behalf of the Superintendency in Alberobello a seminar on the topic as part of the celebrations of the UNESCO site and sharing with the Administration operational choices on accessibility in the context of planning the valorisation of the historical routes of the monumental districts currently being implemented.

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