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Reuse, Resignification and Landscape Reintegration of Mediterranean Wall Bunkers: The Cases of Clot de Galvany (Spain) and Molentargius (Italy)

  • Andrés Martínez-Medina
  • Giancarlo Sanna

Designed to escape the gaze, many Mediterranean Wall bunkers survive in natural parks as materially resistant yet patrimonially opaque presences. The paper examines Clot de Galvany and Molentargius as case studies to investigate how sources, fieldwork, surveys, representations and architectural-landscape comparison can support a graduated scale of compatible interventions, from controlled accessibility to the construction of integrated cultural routes. It does not propose the bunker—ruin of modern architecture and optical device for territorial control—as an autonomous object or cultural container, but as a structure to be recognized, recovered and reintegrated into the landscape, connecting military memory, natural systems, productive infrastructures and public use of the park.

  • Keywords:
  • Defensive architecture,
  • Military landscape,
  • Mediterranean Wall,
  • Adaptive reuse,
  • Landscape reintegration,
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Andrés Martínez-Medina

University of Alicante, Spain - ORCID: 0000-0002-5309-9310

Giancarlo Sanna

University of Cagliari, Italy - ORCID: 0009-0009-8404-3772

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Reuse, Resignification and Landscape Reintegration of Mediterranean Wall Bunkers: The Cases of Clot de Galvany (Spain) and Molentargius (Italy)

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Andrés Martínez-Medina, Giancarlo Sanna

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10.36253/979-12-215-1113-0.121

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2026

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ReUso 2026 - New heritage and future strategies. Perspectives on conservation and promotion

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14th International Congress Barcelona-Girona, 4-7 November

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Alessandro Scarnato, Marisa García Vergara, Ángeles Layuno Rosas

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