ABSTRACT
The preservation of existing monuments against natural or anthropic actions that may compromise their stability, such as earthquakes or excavations, is an issue of great interest. The conservation of Italian architectural heritage, so vast and rich in historical and artistic terms, requires a multidisciplinary approach to understand the ongoing phenomena and to implement countermeasures against degradation factors caused by natural and anthropic risks. This chapter presents an integrated, geotechnical and structural, research for the investigation of the stability conditions of the Ninfeo di Genazzano. It illustrates an advanced numerical approach for the analysis of the degradation processesthat affected the Nymphaeum of Genazzano, a Renaissance structure attributed to Bramante and located in the southern portion of the Lazio region. During the last restoration of the Ninfeo of Genazzano, occurred in 2006, some site investigation and laboratory tests were carried out to characterize the foundation soils.
