Conservation and enhancement of the Italian architectural heritage in Cyrene

After the recent war events, after years of a long regime that has led to a cultural vacuum, today's Libya is much more aware of one's heritage, which lives on as a revitalizing element of one's ethnic identity, but in very different way from east to west, from north to south, from the sea to the desert hinterland, because the 'heritage' are different to be valued, as the tribal entities that form the connective tissue of Libya as always are different. What colleagues from local superintendencies and universities are asking for today is to help them make their young people understand the history that such a rich territory communicates. Unfortunately, in fact, during the past regime, the teaching of history ancient history has been impoverished, trying to minimize the previous historical phases, placing the emphasis on the era of the advent of regime, erasing, or at least trying to erase, so much of the variegated roots of the Libyans to make them 'a single cultural voice'. For that reason, during the recent war throughout Libya, it was the local people, tribes and municipal communities to defend their archaeological and monumental heritage with their bare hands. Unfortunately, the largely abandoned Italian architecture of the colonial period has been removed from this heritage. Starting from the still existing architectures and Italian villages, the research tried to investigate the objective possibilities of conserving and re-functionalizing this heritage, in most cases abandoned, trying to prefigure new ones for the community.