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In this short contribution, which develops between periegetic and historical iconography, is the proposal of a reading of the island through the continuous comparison of frames (historical and contemporary). But knowledge of the island is also a metaphor for a microcosm characterized by signs of continuous identification for what represents an extraordinary Mediterranean context.
Procida is an island of volcanic origins where the artifice-nature pair is exalted; the environmental context is linked to the architectural heritage of the maritime villages in the sign of continuous stratification, aspects and themes that also emerge in the passages about the island from the literary production of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The island’s variously colored churches, aristocratic palaces and marinas represent a unique heritage, still enhanced by striking features of “spontaneous architecture.”