Publicomos

Notice (permalien)

Réf.

44572

Type

article

Titre

Conservation of the fortress of São Sebastião, Ilha de Mozambique

Langues

English

Auteurs

Berti, Maurizio

Auteurs institutionnels

Universidade Lúrio

Maison d'édition

World Monuments Fund

Date

25/04/2014

Pages

8 p.

Titre de la revue

World Monuments Fund Blog

Mots-clés

World Heritage List / fortified architecture / restoration of historic monuments / plaster / mortar / prevention of deterioration / protective coatings

Pays mentionnés

Mozambique

Monuments et sites

Fortress of São Sebastião, Ilha de Moçambique (Mozambique Island), Mozambique

N° Patrimoine mondial

599

Résumé en anglais

The approach to the reading of the materials and structures of the fortress of São Sebastião in Ilha de Moçambique must be accompanied by knowledge of the stages that marked its building. This architecture should be fully examined, and the studies, prior to the 1980s, of its transformations should be resumed to understand its history and its current physical structure. From my survey it seemed that the idea of designing the fortifications as a set of flexible rather than brittle materials was seriously considered in the seventeenth century transformations at the bulwarks São Gabriel to the southwest and Santa Bárbara to the southeast. This hypothesis, obviously, should be verified by tests and stratigraphic surveys.

URL

https://www.wmf.org/blog/conservation-fortress-s%C3%A3o-sebasti%C3%A3o-ilha-de-mozambique

Document joint

Conservation of the Fortress of Sao Sebastiao - Ilha de Mozambique - WMF - M Berti.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)