Bergamo per Gubbio. L’esperienza del piano di risanamento di Città Alta

The Bergamo recovery plan stands as a virtuous experience with which to establish a constructive comparison for the theoretical elaboration of the principles formulated in the Gubbio Charter. Bergamo, among the eight municipalities sponsoring the conference held in Gubbio in September 1960, was in those years completing the final stages of the plan that had been interrupted during World War II. Although the guiding principles of the Recovery Plan appreciated by Gustavo Giovannoni may be considered outdated at the time of the Gubbio conference, they nonetheless provide a benchmark for establishing operational and legislative procedures for the protection and preservation of historic urban environments. With regard to the latter, the considerations expressed in the final declaration of the conference can be read in the watermark of the discussions preceding the drafting of the Venice Charter and in its enunciation, for example in art. 1, where is written “the definition of historical monument includes both the isolated architectural building and the urban environment”.