Atlante dei geo-materiali usati nel patrimonio archeologico e architettonico dell'Italia meridionale. Vol. 1

The "GeoArt" Series welcomes interdisciplinary works aimed at characterizing geological-cultural values typical of Southern Italian Landscapes. The Atlas of Geo-Materials is the key work (8 Volumes) that illustrates to the reader/visitor, in a Scientific-Cultural Itinerary, ancient Architectures, guiding him/her to the "reading" of the territorial stone materials that characterize them, in the relevant Geological-Historical context. Volume One, with the initial three chapters, kicks off the Itinerary, with visits to three renowned Sicilian Sites and the study of: 1. Oligo-Miocene yellow-ochre sandstones in the Greek-Roman Site of Tyndaris (North-Central Sicily); 2. Oligo-Miocene gray sandstones in the Gothic-Renaissance Sacred Architecture of Novara di Sicilia (Northeastern Sicily); 3. Proterozoic Meta-ultramafic and Paleozoic Meta-ultramafic (Green Rocks) in the Norman-Gothic Sacred Architecture of the Cathedral of Messina (Northeastern Sicily). The reconstructed Route "runs through unprecedented scenarios, where the physical places and those of history and narrative materialize in a kind of unrepeatable permanent exhibition, crossing the frontier that unites "places and culture" and that asks, as the only passport, for a new gaze and sensibility.