ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the growth of interest in preservation of the Sassi, which was fed in general by rapid expansion of the national and international preservation movements. It sets the idea of conservation of historic urban cores discussed not only at the Gubbio conference (1960), Congrs International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) 7 (1949), and (CIAM) 8 (1952), but also going back to Giovannoni's early work in the 1910s. This may account for the focus of discussions and analyses in the Third Biennale on tourism in the Sassi. Newspapers, primarily the local section of the Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, began to report on the debate in January 1996 during the final revision of the plan. Cultural tourism touches everyone in the city'. It is no surprise that after the death of the Renzo Piano project, the agency changed its mission to the development of cultural tourism in the Sassi, and has now been absorbed into another Chamber office.
