Survey on Cultural Heritage Adaptive Reuse practice

Project Id	3716
Project Name	Catacombe di Napoli, Italy
Description	The Catacombs of Naples is a subterranean burial place set under one of the most populate working-class area of the city, the Sanità district. Here appeared, at first, Hellenistic hypogeums (underground temples or tombs; from Greek hypo -under- and Gaia -mother earth or goddess of earth), and, later on, in the Early Christianity age, the Paleo-Christian catacombs, ancient tombs of the first Christians and bishops of the city. Nowadays only some of them can be visited, in spite of their historical and artistic uniqueness for the local heritage. Indeed, catacombs are considered an upside-down architecture, as they were dug in the tuff rock in the subsoil; and this results in projecting the visitor, in contact with the inevitability of death, toward the transcend mystery of the afterworld. In 2006 was born a cooperative called “La Paranza”, that is, little by little, restoring and opening parts of this forgot heritage to the public, enhancing the neighbourhood and the local economy.
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