High resolution GPR survey to investigate the urban centres: the case of XX Settembre square of Fano (Fano, Italy)

This paper shows the preliminary results of a new archaeogeophysics investigations in Piazza XX Settembre in Fano carried out thanks to a collaboration between the Vitruvian Studies Center, the Superintendence of Archeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the Provinces of Ancona and Pesaro and Urbino, the Institute of Heritage Sciences of the CNR of Rome and the Municipality of Fano. The new research includes a high-resolution georadar survey and a bibliographic and archival research, still in progress, concerning the square and its surrounding. The main purpose of this new study is to understand the evolution of this city's sector from the Roman period to the Medieval age, and intends also to investigate the historical and archaeological knowledge of this area located in the city's center of Fano.