Carbon content evaluation of damage layer in a an urban Mediterranean site: the Vittoriano Monument in Rome

The work aims to improve knowledge on the role of black crusts in stone decay, their relationship with the carbonaceous particle content of the atmosphere, and surface blackening rate. Because of the diversity of urban atmospheric pollution, different target sites have been selected among European cities, in order to investigate the formation of damage layers on monuments built in low porous carbonate stone. This report lists the results of an analysis of black crusts from the Vittoriano Monument in Rome, a crucial site for the study of cultural heritage protection in the Mediterranean basin.