GIS applications in the valorisation of the cultural heritage: The case of Campovalano (Central Italy, TE) and its territory

Campovalano is located in the territory of Teramo, the northernmost province of Abruzzo, in Central Adriatic Italy: the site is a quite well known for a very large and rich necropolis, dating from Late Bronze Age to the Roman conquest. For long time, the emphasis in this territory has been given mainly to the necropolis, however the whole area is rich in history and monuments from to the twelfth-century BC to the seventeenth-century AD and contextualized within a well preserved natural and environmental context. Therefore, the use of GIS tools, in combination with crossing data from judgmental survey and historical sources, represents not only a useful resource for researches but it is, also, an opportunity in planning the cultural and the tourist paths, as well as in monitoring the preservation of the monuments and the natural resources of this territory and intangible heritage.