The workshop analysed possible social and economic effects of fortifications on cities and regions to recover their forgotten or lost heritage.

Case studies from The Netherlands, Germany and Italy were presented, by which the success of revitalisation and recovering were intensively explained and discussed. It became clear, that a successful recovery of a fortification’s heritage is reliant on the political framework of a city, region or nation.

Therefore, the attendance of regional politicians was a good signal for the whole Province of Verona and for the Project Forte Cultura. This assures us that the general aims of the workshop and also of the whole project are well understood and acknowledged by public authorities.

The architectural value of the “AustroHungarian Fortress Heritage” partly lying in the Province of Verona, was pointed out in relation of the UNESCO-World Heritage List.