Carthage
Project: Cultural and environmental park of the Maalga and the Punic Ports in Carthage
Site: Carthage
Project manager: Giorgio Gullini
Partners: Centro Ricerche Archeologiche e Scavi di Torino, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE), Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities (MBAC), Ministry of the Treasury, Parco dell’Appia Antica, National Council of Research – Institute of Technologies applied to the Cultural Heritage (CNR-ITABC) – Institut National du Patrimoine de Tunis (INP)
The project for the cultural and environmental park of the Maalga and the area of the Punic Ports, which got under way in October 2003 and terminated in December 2005, consisted of a feasibility study for the management of the Maalga area and the Punic Ports in Carthage, on the basis of archaeological, topographic, geologic, geomorphologic, urban and financial surveys, and with the help of field surveys, geophysical prospections, remote sensing and computerized elaborations.
The programme, originated by an Italian-Tunisian cooperation with the contribution of Centro Scavi di Torino, MAE, MBAC, Parco Appia Antica, CNR and INP) is the answer to a specific request by the Tunisian government in March 2001. Its purpose is to represent a component of the larger project for the National Park of Carthage-Sidi Bou Said, whose perimeters and studies relating to how the terrain was developed take into consideration the system of cultural, archaeological and environmental values defined in the UNESCO campaigns of the 1970s.
The multi-disciplinary analyses carried out were particularly important, and, in addition to basic considerations of a historical nature, also provided a structured research model that can be applied to other archaeological studies.