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"New life" for defence military architecture: the case of the sighting towers in Basilicata
2014
Defence Sites II
unpublished
Since the time of Roman Empire possession, the need to defend and guard the territory from foreign incursions has been felt, especially in peripheral or coastal areas. For this reason, numerous towers were built; they form just a part of a larger communication system, in which each tower was in line with the next, communicating through a telegraph or semaphoric system, via a complex system of bright reflections using fires, smoke or mirrors and sometimes even with a warning signal (bells). The
doi:10.2495/dshf140031
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