From the 10th to the 15th century, the castle of Marmilla was part of the southern defensive system of the Kingdom of Arborèa. It controlled an important strategic sector: it represented the power on the outskirts of the State, controlled the plains historically devoted to agricultural production and presided over the communication route. It is a fortification, on the top of a steep hill, built with considerable economic resources justified by its strategic importance. The fortification characterized the landscape of which it was part, being influenced in turn: it gave the name to the administrative district of which it was the capital and then to the geographical subregion. As in the protohistoric era the Barumini nuragic complex, this manor conditioned the surrounding landscape, which has always been devoted to the production of grain and organized in an economically sufficient balance between the small village, cultivated fields and vegetable gardens along the river; so this district was always among the major producers of wheat and among the highest economic resources for those who governed it. Abandoned for centuries, the castle was removed from the shared heritage of the community of Las Plassas. The recent scientific interest aroused by its history and the territory has allowed to resew once again the link between it and the present community; its structures have been the subject of studies from military architecture and materials points of view; a geoarchaeological survey project attested the intensive use of the territories relevant to the castle from early history up to the present day. In 2013 a multimedia museum has been established, the MudA, which, telling the story of the castle, describes the landscape and daily life of the people who inhabited it.
G. SERRELI - F. SULAS, Il castrum Marmillae: un castello di confine e presidio delle risorse agricole arborensi / The castrum Marmillae: a border castle to defend Arborea's agricultural resources, in G. Damiani, D.R. Fiorino (edd.), Scenari per il futuro del patrimonio militare. Un confronto internazionale in occasione del 150° anniversario della dismissione delle piazzeforti militari in Italia / Military landscapes. Future for military heritage. An international overview event celebrating the 150th anniversary of the decommissioning of Italian fortesses, MiBACT - Polo Museale della Sardegna - DICAAR - Università degli Studi di Cagliari - Skira editore, Milano 2017, pp. 398-399
GIOVANNI SERRELI;
2017
Abstract
From the 10th to the 15th century, the castle of Marmilla was part of the southern defensive system of the Kingdom of Arborèa. It controlled an important strategic sector: it represented the power on the outskirts of the State, controlled the plains historically devoted to agricultural production and presided over the communication route. It is a fortification, on the top of a steep hill, built with considerable economic resources justified by its strategic importance. The fortification characterized the landscape of which it was part, being influenced in turn: it gave the name to the administrative district of which it was the capital and then to the geographical subregion. As in the protohistoric era the Barumini nuragic complex, this manor conditioned the surrounding landscape, which has always been devoted to the production of grain and organized in an economically sufficient balance between the small village, cultivated fields and vegetable gardens along the river; so this district was always among the major producers of wheat and among the highest economic resources for those who governed it. Abandoned for centuries, the castle was removed from the shared heritage of the community of Las Plassas. The recent scientific interest aroused by its history and the territory has allowed to resew once again the link between it and the present community; its structures have been the subject of studies from military architecture and materials points of view; a geoarchaeological survey project attested the intensive use of the territories relevant to the castle from early history up to the present day. In 2013 a multimedia museum has been established, the MudA, which, telling the story of the castle, describes the landscape and daily life of the people who inhabited it.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
