Farmsteads, suburban manor houses and country houses, itineraries of conservation of a damaged heritage of the Adriatic coast.

The paper aims to draw attention to some categories of constructions, such as farms, farmsteads, country houses or ‘retreat villas’ that outline the profiles of a cultural heritage with a identity bond with the territories of origin: the building techniques, architectural typologies and the location of the constructions acknowledge their connection and reciprocal influence with the local resources and landscape. These buildings developed according to a unitary project or as a result to the architectural stratification of older structures, are often altered by far too many changes due to state of neglect, rampant overdevelopment and by inappropriate interventions of demolishment and change. The edifices, built outside the historic centers, in the open countryside or along the coast, represent a turning point in the social and economic dynamic settlements of the past also connected to the transformation of the productive activities between the nineteenth and twentieth century. The path of mindfulness of the tangible and intangible values verifiable in the studies of the buildings in their environment identifies a starting point of the consideration on the uses consistent with the proper conservation of these particular realities of settlements; knowledge this architectural heritage appears today important for the expansion of the reference points for the safeguard and the enhancement within sustainable development.