Cartografia e “pax idraulica”: esondazioni, progettazione e gestione del territorio nella Valle dell’Adige

CARTOGRAPHY AND “PAX IDRAULICA”: FLOODS, PROJECTS AND TERRITORIAL MANAGEMENT IN THE ADIGE VALLEY – The territories of the Adige Valley, in the area of the autonomous Provinces of Trento and Bolzano, was modified during time for political and administrative reasons and for urgent social and economic needs. The projects about the changes of the river route were useful to the territorial management and they needed cartographic representations, as a primary element and crucial factor for the analysis of territory and for the projecting plans. The paper main aim is to make apparent, through the critical analysis of the sources, the maps that are in the Trentino’s archives, mostly unpublished. This will be useful to give a geo-historical view on the processes which determined the present configuration of the Adige basin. The main attention has been focused on the cartographic elements as a decisive factor in the management and in the territorial modification processes.