Sustainable development of an inland area: the case of Bisaccia (Avellino, southern Italy), a town suspended between natural disasters and modern re-construction.

In this study, we present the main phases of the reconstruction of the town of Bisaccia after natural disasters. Bisaccia is a small town in the hinterland of the southern Apen-nines (southern Italy), most recently hit by the earthquake of 23 November 1980. However, the urban and socio-economic development of the town was determined not only by the earthquakes of the past centuries, such as those of 1694, 1732, 1930 and 1962, but also and above all by the fragility of the terrain deposits on which it stands, that caused complex landslide phenomena on the territory. The earthquake of 1980 made it possible to rebuild the village on a different site, not far from the old settle-ment, resulting in the de facto coexistence of two villages, with all the problems that this entails. This article examines how Bisaccia town has historically adapted and re-sponded to seismic and hydrogeological crises with the aim of point up the sustainable development of Bisaccia inland areas. We collected a photographic documentation of the actual urban reality of Bisaccia reporting in detail modern 'atypical and utopian' new assessment of the town as desired by its creator, the architect Aldo Loris Rossi.