The role of the authenticity in the post Second World War interventions and regulations in the historical centres: looking for parameters for re-construction

This paper aims to investigate how did the re-construction processes dealt with the concept of authenticity of the de-stroyed historical centres after the Second World War, fuelling the contents of the Venice Charter, to define and de-scribe the parameters at the base of every project. After 1945, the situation of total disaster, and the resulting need for immediate re-construction, led to a reassess-ment of the principles of scientific restoration, of the theories pivoted on minimal intervention and neutral addition reiterated in the Athens Charter. It was a question of re-building entire portions of a city and not just consolidating small parts of a monument. The theoretical acquisitions emerged during the post Second World War re-building phase were the subject of the meeting promoted in 1964 in Venice, during the 2nd International Congress of Archi-tects and Technicians of Historic Monuments, becoming the first international document in which general principles for the protection of monuments were crystallised.