Simone Quilici
Simone Quilici is an architect and landscape currently director of Parco Archeologico dell'Appia Antica and an adjunct professor at the American University of Rome teaching cultural heritage management. He was previously working for Regione Lazio Culture Department (Cultural Heritage Service). After qualifying at Università di Roma La Sapienza he took a PhD at Università di Firenze in urban, territorial and environmental architecture. Since then has worked on many major heritage projects including the via Francigena pilgrimage route, the masterplan for environmental, cultural and touristic enhancement of northern littoral of Lazio, the Appia Antica and the Unesco inscription request of the Valnerina municipalities of Umbria. He has conducted research on the heritage of Sabaudia, the GIL building of Luigi Moretti, EUR district and via Imperiale in Rome.
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of the Via Latina, a decidedly less known and studied route than the "sister" Via Appia Antica. According to
the acquisitions, a new approach to the study of the territory is needed: a long-term and diachronic reading,
trying to systematize all the data acquired up to now, not only under an interpretative topographical point of
view, but on a broader horizon. By embracing a wider territory we can define the evolutionary dynamics,
especially in a period of strong changes and reconfigurations of the urban and peri-urban habitat, like the late
antique one. Through this territorial scale and through this long-term approach, it seems possible to outline
an ancient landscape different from the one widely presented up to now. According to the evidence of funerary archeology, with the mausoleums and tomb structures that lined the road, it has always been assumed
that landscape has been early ruralized and transformed, starting from the third and fourth century, into a
landscape of ruins, peripheral and sparsely inhabited. The new interpretative readings, based on the most
modern historiographical and critical acquisitions, allow a reinterpretation of the archaeological sources,
which demonstrates on the one hand how the ancient and late ancient landscape of this section of the suburb
cannot be traced exclusively to a funeral occupation and how the presence in the territory after the fifth century
is anything but sporadic and unstructured. The typical forms of occupation and land uses of the ancient age
are abandoned, but nevertheless the archaeological stratigraphies show a dynamic use of the territory which
can still count on large-scale supplies and a rather stable horizon for centuries. In general terms a similar
reinterpretation allows to carry out a series of considerations on the real visibility of historical landscapes and
on the consequent interpretation of the archaeological record for a historical-critical reconstruction of the past.
For example, it can be observed how the intense - and at times disordered - building activity that involved the
first stretches of the Via Latina has actually favored, through archeological investigations, the emergence of a
conspicuous mass of data that would differentiate the landscape of the Via Latina from the one of the Via
Appia that is mostly crystallized and where strict landscape protection inhibits new data acquisition. In conclusion, the diachronic reinterpretation of the landscape of the fourth mile of the Via Latina allows us to highlight how much the traces of the past, present in large quantities even in a territory deconstructed by the
spontaneity of the building and the chaotic evolutionary dynamics of the twentieth-century city, can today
constitute the backbone for a reconfiguration of the territory that aims, through a redesign of the public space,
to define the qualifying character of the contemporary landscape.
living in their vicinity and surrounding areas, as well as
for those who live in sprawling urban environments.
The urban expansion of Rome has today begun to
encroach on areas, which up to twenty years ago
were mostly just for the dynamic day tripper. Today,
commuting times are, on average, one hour, sometimes
one and a half hours, and the population of
the areas within this range has been boosted by newcomers
attracted to a better quality of life and considerably
lower living costs.
From the changing population and the increased
mobility of daytrippers, comes the need to connect
the user-citizen and the resident-citizen with the natural
protected environment, to encourage proper use
and increased awareness of natural and cultural resources,
with the aim of transforming the visitor into
one who becomes aware and respectful of nature.
To this end, the governing body of the Nature Reserve
Lago di Vico has undertaken communication,
information and promotional activities in recent years
in order to connect the protected area with the surrounding
territory and its citizens in multifarious ways.
This policy has been inspired by consultation with
different public entities, determining various wants
and needs, in order to plan and realize a series of
communication and infrastructural activities so as to
improve or create ex novo the concept of a public
nature and a public common space.
A series of public funded projects have been carried
out, ranging from the improvement of the paths and
the consolidation of structures of historic interest, to
the creation of lookouts (often including upgrading
service structures), as well as the production of explanatory
material and communication initiatives.
Per le sue rappresentazioni Hagenbeck mise a punto la tecnica del “diorama” per approdare a quella del “panorama naturalistico scientifico”, dove oltre agli uomini erano presenti gli animali, la quale a sua volta avrebbe costituito un prototipo per gli zoo del futuro. Questi, infatti, avrebbero dovuto superare il vecchio sistema di esposizione filtrato dalle sbarre delle gabbie, per favorire invece un senso di immersione dello spettatore nell'habitat di origine degli animali, attraverso la realizzazione di uno spazio che ne simula le caratteristiche.
Dopo l'esperienza del Tierpark di Stellingen, vicino ad Amburgo, queste tecniche vennero sviluppate da Hagenbeck e dai suoi collaboratori in modo sistematico nello Zoo di Roma.
of the Via Latina, a decidedly less known and studied route than the "sister" Via Appia Antica. According to
the acquisitions, a new approach to the study of the territory is needed: a long-term and diachronic reading,
trying to systematize all the data acquired up to now, not only under an interpretative topographical point of
view, but on a broader horizon. By embracing a wider territory we can define the evolutionary dynamics,
especially in a period of strong changes and reconfigurations of the urban and peri-urban habitat, like the late
antique one. Through this territorial scale and through this long-term approach, it seems possible to outline
an ancient landscape different from the one widely presented up to now. According to the evidence of funerary archeology, with the mausoleums and tomb structures that lined the road, it has always been assumed
that landscape has been early ruralized and transformed, starting from the third and fourth century, into a
landscape of ruins, peripheral and sparsely inhabited. The new interpretative readings, based on the most
modern historiographical and critical acquisitions, allow a reinterpretation of the archaeological sources,
which demonstrates on the one hand how the ancient and late ancient landscape of this section of the suburb
cannot be traced exclusively to a funeral occupation and how the presence in the territory after the fifth century
is anything but sporadic and unstructured. The typical forms of occupation and land uses of the ancient age
are abandoned, but nevertheless the archaeological stratigraphies show a dynamic use of the territory which
can still count on large-scale supplies and a rather stable horizon for centuries. In general terms a similar
reinterpretation allows to carry out a series of considerations on the real visibility of historical landscapes and
on the consequent interpretation of the archaeological record for a historical-critical reconstruction of the past.
For example, it can be observed how the intense - and at times disordered - building activity that involved the
first stretches of the Via Latina has actually favored, through archeological investigations, the emergence of a
conspicuous mass of data that would differentiate the landscape of the Via Latina from the one of the Via
Appia that is mostly crystallized and where strict landscape protection inhibits new data acquisition. In conclusion, the diachronic reinterpretation of the landscape of the fourth mile of the Via Latina allows us to highlight how much the traces of the past, present in large quantities even in a territory deconstructed by the
spontaneity of the building and the chaotic evolutionary dynamics of the twentieth-century city, can today
constitute the backbone for a reconfiguration of the territory that aims, through a redesign of the public space,
to define the qualifying character of the contemporary landscape.
living in their vicinity and surrounding areas, as well as
for those who live in sprawling urban environments.
The urban expansion of Rome has today begun to
encroach on areas, which up to twenty years ago
were mostly just for the dynamic day tripper. Today,
commuting times are, on average, one hour, sometimes
one and a half hours, and the population of
the areas within this range has been boosted by newcomers
attracted to a better quality of life and considerably
lower living costs.
From the changing population and the increased
mobility of daytrippers, comes the need to connect
the user-citizen and the resident-citizen with the natural
protected environment, to encourage proper use
and increased awareness of natural and cultural resources,
with the aim of transforming the visitor into
one who becomes aware and respectful of nature.
To this end, the governing body of the Nature Reserve
Lago di Vico has undertaken communication,
information and promotional activities in recent years
in order to connect the protected area with the surrounding
territory and its citizens in multifarious ways.
This policy has been inspired by consultation with
different public entities, determining various wants
and needs, in order to plan and realize a series of
communication and infrastructural activities so as to
improve or create ex novo the concept of a public
nature and a public common space.
A series of public funded projects have been carried
out, ranging from the improvement of the paths and
the consolidation of structures of historic interest, to
the creation of lookouts (often including upgrading
service structures), as well as the production of explanatory
material and communication initiatives.
Per le sue rappresentazioni Hagenbeck mise a punto la tecnica del “diorama” per approdare a quella del “panorama naturalistico scientifico”, dove oltre agli uomini erano presenti gli animali, la quale a sua volta avrebbe costituito un prototipo per gli zoo del futuro. Questi, infatti, avrebbero dovuto superare il vecchio sistema di esposizione filtrato dalle sbarre delle gabbie, per favorire invece un senso di immersione dello spettatore nell'habitat di origine degli animali, attraverso la realizzazione di uno spazio che ne simula le caratteristiche.
Dopo l'esperienza del Tierpark di Stellingen, vicino ad Amburgo, queste tecniche vennero sviluppate da Hagenbeck e dai suoi collaboratori in modo sistematico nello Zoo di Roma.