On Wednesday April 2, 2025 the presentation of the volume “Archaeology and environmental sustainability for a territorial cooperation to combat climate change – Las Pautas/Arqueo-Cuba: Arqueología y sostenibilidad environmental para una cooperación territorial de enfrentamiento al cambio climatico" will take place at the National Central Library of Rome.
The event is part of the mission in Italy of the Cuban delegation of the ArqueoCuba project, composed of: Patricia Rodríguez Alomá, Director of the Master Plan of the Historian’s Office of the City of Havana, Lisette Roura Alvarez, Director of the Cabinet of Archaeology of the same institution, Orozco Leonel Pérez Candelaria, Director of the Conservator’s Office of the City of Matanzas, and Marieta Poey Zamora, Governor of the Province of Matanzas.
For the Directorate General of Education, Research and Cultural Institutes, Dr. Elisabetta Borgia and the architect Maria Adelaide Ricciardi, co-author of the volume and co-author for the Archeo-Cuba project, will be present, with a significant contribution to the debate on the issues of cultural landscape conservation.
The presentation of the volume, the result of a collaborative work between all the project partners, will represent a moment of comparison and dialogue, in which each author will be able to tell his own contribution, illustrating the connection with the objectives of the project.
The volume collects the results of Archeo-Cuba, a territorial cooperation project in the field of archaeology and sustainability for the fight against climate change, financed by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation AICS and launched in July 2021.
The mission of the Cuban delegation will continue until April 9, 2025 with a program focused on activities aimed at promoting reflections and discussions on the issues of sustainable management and enhancement of sites of archaeological-historical value in naturalistic contexts.
The project
The main objective of Arqueo-Cuba is to safeguard and protect the historical stratification of Cuban archaeological sites within urban contexts and the cultural and natural values associated with them. The purpose of Arqueo-Cuba is therefore to give life to new territorial public policies that ensure the conservation of cultural heritage in urban and naturalistic environments, based on the analyses and data collected.
The project partners are: Municipality of San Felice Circeo (Proposing body), ARCS Arci Culture Solidali, Department of Environmental Biology – Sapienza University, General Directorate of Education, Research and Cultural Institutes of Ministry of Culture, Foundation School of Cultural Heritage and Activities, Oficina del Conservador de la Ciudad de Matanzas (OCCM), Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad de la Habana (OHcH).
More information on the Archeo-Cuba project is available on the dedicated page.