Iugera Pauca Tenent: The Crisis of the Historical Centre of Sulmona between Conjuncture and Structure

Dipartimento di Architettura, Università “G. d’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara, Italy

Abstract: Sulmona is a town of significant historical memory, but it is currently living through a dramatic moment in its centuries-old history. Today it shows signs of a progressive demographic decrease that has been mainly due to the effects of the 2009 earthquake in the nearby city of L’Aquila. They haven’t studied the structural causes of the depopulation which has taken the form of a turn-over of the traditional local residents with citizens from outside EU. It is from these fundamentals that the need for this study has arisen to implement a strategy of consolidation and revitalisation within the ancient centre of Sulmona.