Toponomastica bene comune = Toponymy common heritage

This volume collects the papers presented during the study day “Toponymy Common Heritage”, organized by the Department of Cultural Heritage of the Rome Chapter of Architects at the House of Architecture in Rome, September 10, 2013. Place-names are variable by their own nature. They change over time, and often move from one place to another, recording with their transformations different societies and regimes that follow in time so to become with due caution a true historical source. For this variability, we should protect place-names, establishing an archive to record the different occurrences found in historical sources, together with their variations in time. Yet the names, among the most variable things as to belong to the category of intangible cultural heritage, appear here alongside with places, characterized instead by a high degree of permanence. For sure, the form of the territory is evolving very slowly, or with times that are almost irrelevant if compared to the historical time.