Innesti architettonici e concatenazioni archeologiche. prospettive di riconnessione per due paesaggi archeologici del Montenegro

In the territories of the inner Mediterranean, often characterized by limited accessibility and low attractiveness, the enhancement project of archaeological sites scattered across the territories can be a key to interpreting and renewing undervalued historical and cultural landscapes. In the inner Balkans in particular, an area of consolidated connection between East and West, the large number of archaeological sites testifies to the particular significance that this territory has had over the centuries as a meeting ground for different cultures and a clash between opposing imperialisms. Among the largest settlements in Roman Dalmatia, the ancient cities of Doclea, (1st-7th century AD) north of the capital Podgorica, and Municipium S, (1st-5th century AD) in the municipality of Pljevlja on the border with Serbia, has significant factors of interest in relation to the construction of enhancement prospects linked to the reconnection of a widespread Mediterranean culture, for which archaeology assumes the symbolic value of a chronological and spatial bridge, cross-border belonging and social cohesion. Still little known internationally and partly unexcavated, the two sites are the focus of research activities of two bilateral Italy-Montenegro projects developed by the Institute of Heritage Science of the National Research Council of Italy. Through the design of architectural grafts, the aim of the projects is to define a strategy for the enhancement of archaeological landscapes that directs overall development prospects for these territories, starting from the specific identity of certain archaeological sites understood as bridge-areas, physical and meaningful concatenations for cultural landscapes at risk of isolation, abandonment and tampering.