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    Italian experience of Management Plan for the historical towns of the World Heritage List: San Gimignano (Tuscany)

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    The aim of this paper is to show the Management Plan of San Gimignano (Tuscany), highlighting the reasons that have led to this plan. It comes from the will of the Town’s Council during the redaction of the Structural-Town Plan, because it is considered highly useful for an appropriate grow of the town in agreement with the Unesco’s suggestions, and also in order to be ready for the next Unesco checking

    Lo stato dell’arte per la conoscenza: l’impiego dello stucco in Sardegna in periodo barocco

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    Come specificato nella nota * sono da riferire esclusivamente a Fiorino D.R. i contenuti relativi alle parti riguardanti le province di Cagliari e di Oristano, anche per i paragrafi ove questo non è esplicitamente rimarcato (“I materiali e le tecniche” (pp. 147-148), e “Le maestranze” (pp. 151-152), “Teoria e prassi, piano e progetto: due dimensioni lontane” e “Conclusioni” sono da riferire a tutti gli autori

    New estimation of the post little ice age relative sea level rise

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    The study area is located in NW Sardinia Island (Italy), Mediterranean Sea. Sardinia is considered stable since the late Pliocene with a negligible subsidence of about 0.01 mm/y. It is therefore normally used to reconstruct the Pleistocene and Holocene sea level curves. Our research focusses on the sea-facing city of Alghero that from 1353 to 1720 was under the Spanish government. During this time, the city was renovated and new buildings edified. Dimension stones were quarried all around Alghero both in the nearby inland and along the coast. Coastal quarries were considered the most suitable for both rock quality and the easiest way to transport the quarried material by boat. The quarried rocks are late Pleistocene dune and beach sandstones deposited from the 132 ka (Marine Isotopic Stage-MIS5) to about 65 ka (MIS4). Sandstones crop out from few cm to 3 m above the present sea level and underwent several consolidation processes related to loading and marine weathering. This latter favoured dissolution and circulation of calcium carbonate which cemented the rocks. It is reported that the Spanish were looking for these "marine" sandstones for their high geotechnical characteristics. Different rules were adopted through time for the size of the dimension stones and this has allowed us to establish a quarry exploitation chronology. For example, "40 x 60 x 20" cm was the size of the dimension stones used for the Alghero Cathedral dated at 1505-1593. Nowadays most of the coastal Spanish quarry floors are 30 centimetres below mean sea level (tidal range is 30 cm). Accordingly, we infer that relative sea level from 1830 AD (and of the Little Ice Age) rose in about 200 years to the present level at the rate of about 1.4 mm/y. Considering that relative sea level rise during the Medieval warm period was of 0.6 mm/y over a period of about 400 years, we may deduce that human influence was strong enough to lead to a relative sea-level rise faster and in shorter time
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