The diachronic path: the virtual restoration of the Spanish walls of Ortigia

Abstract

There are architectural works whose mark on the area is no longer impressed by matter and for which interventions cannot be defined in a material restoration. There are important buildings which having being in fact destroyed by the will of community decision-making, with complex processes and often controversies, have literally cancelled out pieces of
history. In the absence of matter, the representation conducted using the latest digital technology, which has made a significant contribution to the documentation of these works for which a virtual restoration helps to
keep the record alive. The study focuses on the impressive work of the Spanish walls that for more than three centuries have marked the city of Syracuse and which the political events of the late nineteenth century have largely destroyed. The goal is to render this cultural heritage available, in the same way as a material restoration would, through virtual reality.