GIS for the cataloging and enhancement of "specchie" located in the Upper Salento in Apulia Region (Southern Italy)

Abstract - A GIS (Geographical Information System) was developed for the management information related to make decisions about the restoration of some important monuments named specchie. The first aim of an informative system is to make it suitable in easy way to the operators which take every useful information. However, this tool requires, for its application, practice and knowledge about narrow fields, because it has to monitor spatial - physical situations in according with different "angle-shots": so we shouldn't leave historical research and archaeological surveys, chemical-physical both for knowing the degradation state, and also historic-artistic and architectural research.