| ID: I9 |
Title: Temple of GIUNONE, Agrigento, Italy. |
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| Period of construction: IV Century A.C. |
| Structural type: Block structure |
Chronology of intervention:
-1787: Interventions of re-composition by Gabriele Lancillotto Castelli, prince of Torremuzza;
-1950: Structural consolidation using reinforced concrete;
-1975-1980: Conservative restoration.
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Type of interventions:
Intervention on existing gap and irreversible interventions made by “save the object of the restoration from the condition of ruin” [Melucco Vaccaio, Archeologia e restauro, 1989]
Description of the interventions:
-30 columns were saved, 16 of these with capital.
-The cell was destroyed by an earthquake in the Middle Age.
-Today, only the NE side of the temple remains partially complete.
-1787:
Re-composition of the columns with several drums of new realisation; the northern peristyle is the best conserved part, because it is facing the temperature excursions and the saltness of the sea in a minor extent.
-1975-1980:
Interventions of “conservative restoration” absolutely inefficient.
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