From Coastal Towers to the Valorization of the Territory Through the Pages of the Romano Carratelli Code. The To_Know Project 
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Coastal towers, heritage of great historical and architectural interest, highlight passages of coastline with great landscape value, representing a resource for the territories to which they belong. The “To Know” project, financed with resources from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, focuses on the coastal towers of Calabria Ultra, proposing a new paradigm for the enhancement of coastal heritage. The narrative device is the Romano Carratelli Code, keeper of the toponymy and geometries that were to govern the arrangement of these coastal architectures in the territory in the 16th century A.D. Through an integrated approach, between history, culture and digital, the project aims to transform coastal towers, often abandoned and in ruins, into focal points of knowledge of the territory. The initiative is based on the use of Augmented Reality techniques, through which to reconnect the artifacts to the informational and cultural layers they represent.
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