The railway from Naples to Nocera and Castellammare

Valeria Pagnini

The railway from Naples to Nocera and Castellammare: The Vesuvian cities in the first Italian railway landscape

Authors

Valeria Pagnini

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0857-4087

Keywords:

railway, landscape, XIX century, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, History of architecture

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: UrbsHistoriaeImago: History and image of territories, towns and architecture

Pages: 281

Language: Italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/urn:nbn:it:unina-25732

Abstract: The railway from Naples to Nocera with a side branch to Castellammare, whose project was approved in 1836 and which was completed in 1844, represents the first and the most significant stage of the construction of the Bourbon railway infrastructure. The absolute novelty of the enterprise, a work of public utility entrusted in concession to the French engineer Armand Bayard de la Vingtrie, led to the development of new and pressing issues, which concern not only the physical dimension of the Vesuvian coast and its new structure, but also important matters of economy, law, administration, archaeological protection, as well as infrastructure and territory promotion issues.

The volume, through the research and comparison of different archival and documentary sources, is intended to reread the history of the first Bourbon railway by bringing together the many aspects that characterized its design, construction and use up to the Unification of Italy. From this study emerges a perspective on the Vesuvian landscape and on its multiple and complex components, integrated in the new perception, intermittent and cursory, offered by the moving train.

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Author Biography

Valeria Pagnini, University of Naples Federico II

Valeria Pagnini obtained the PhD in History of Architecture in 2018 from the University of Naples Federico II. She held the History of Architecture course as part of the degree course in Building Engineering at the Federician university. Her study interests spanned several lines of research, including industrial archeology (V. Pagnini, Pietrarsa. Storia e destino delle antiche officine borboniche, Edizioni Savarese, Naples 2016), art history (R. De Fusco, V. Pagnini, I concetti nella storia dell’arte, Mimesis Edizioni, Milan-Udine 2012), urban history (V. Pagnini, Permanenza di segni e cambiamento sociale: il caso della costa vesuviana, in G. Gribaudi, G. Menna (a cura di), Pietre e memorie. Resilienza materiale e sociale dei centri storici, CLEAN Edizioni, Naples 2020). The doctoral thesis, entitled Da Napoli a Nocera e Castellammare: architettura, economia e territorio nel primo paesaggio ferroviario italiano (1839-1860), was presented in 2018 to the selection for the AISU Roberta Morelli Prize for young urban history scholars, and got the special mention with dignity of publication.