Documentation of “musealized” military heritage: the Verrucole fortress (Italy); La documentazione del patrimonio militare “musealizzato”: la Fortezza delle Verrucole (Italia)

The defensive system existing in the Garfagnana Valley (LU) demonstrates the strategic importance that the region had over the centuries. Among the most impressive military structures of medieval origin it is possible to include the Verrucole Fortress (San Romano in Garfagnana), which owes its current shape to subsequent expansions and heavy changes starting from the 15th-16th centuries. The paper deals with the recent restoration interventions and musealization of the complex, achieved with the integration of the spaces, the complete rearrangement of functions and the improvement of fruition and activities in relation to the flow of tourism. Besides an efficient reuse of architectural heritage, there is a proposal for the documentation of places and interventions through novel acquisition techniques, such as photomodelling, increasingly efficient, cheap and fast. The 3D digital models created in this way can be used within virtual platforms for the enhancement of the monument and the dissemination to a large public of the historical and touristic information.