Digital Reprocessing of Historical Cartography Through Historiographic Analysis of Sites

There can be many places of excellence in an urban space, vital the city, such as squares. Telling their story also means defining a possible narrative site that, since ancient times, has represented crossroads functions, events, and human flows: moment city’s history, fulcrum soul cultural identity layout. But it is where significant architecture concentrated, both sacred civil, churches or palaces, which emblematically with evolution constitute tangible sign historical stratification. Starting from historiographical documentary study, present work aims at accurately redrawing cartography based on contemporary maps to provide useful tools for physical, political, thematic analysis investigated areas. The methodology developed identification those architectural elements that have not undergone substantial changes over centuries, presenting themselves ideal references redesign operations.KeywordsComputer aided designChronological placesBurgos cathedralPiazza Mercato Naples