The Cathedral of the Assumption and the underlying crypt of Saint Peter represent an emblematic architectural episode housed in the Aragonese Castle of Ischia. The disproportionate size of the sacred building compared to the urban surrounding was the result of the Angevin commission. At the beginning of the fourteenth century the royal family identified in that building an important propagandist element. The ancient magnificence of the Cathedral can be found today despite its preservation in the state of ruins. Starting from the systematic survey of the crypt-church organism and intersecting the results with those obtained from the bibliography, archive sources and historical photographs, the main objective of the research presented in this volume was to define and test a methodology that The main objective of the research presented in this volume was to define and test a methodology that would lead to the digital reconstruction of the main construction phases of the Cathedral. The work confirms how complex it is to investigate the history of ancient buildings and how hard it is to arrive, with scientific certainty, even just a small novelty.

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