Historic Centre: the plan to upgrade public lighting and expand the network in the Carmine Neighborhood with new fixtures on shelves redone from the original ones has been completed.
As part of the CARUGGI Integrated Plan for the regeneration of the Historic Centre, the plan to strengthen public lighting was completed, which saw an intervention on approximately 2,000 lighting fixtures in agreement with the Superintendency and CONSIP, the aesthetics of the lighting fixtures has remained unchanged and energy efficiency has drastically reduced consumption.
The existing DOGE lamps have been updated by the City Green Light company with a retrofit kit from Tagliafico Lighting, a kit consisting of an optical unit with 16 LEDs with a color temperature of 3000k Warm White, with adjustable power supply on different sizes, for the power it can be modulated to according to needs. The olive-shaped polycarbonate screen, now darkened by time, is aesthetically maintained but replaced by a new one made of acrylic polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA), a material with exceptional transparency and high resistance to ultraviolet and aging.
The CARMINE neighborhood was built at the foot of the Olivella and Carbonara hills, in the place where there was an ancient chapel dedicated to the Annunziata, the Carmine complex was built between 1262 and the beginning of the 14th century, in the decades that they saw numerous monastic settlements develop in the city. The convent (destroyed in 1870 to lay out the new access road to the Albergo dei Poveri) and the cloister, of which some traces remain, were built in the fourteenth century; the church, created with a single nave, was enlarged for the first time in the following century, and then modified again in the sixteenth century (with the opening of the external chapels in the right nave) and in the nineteenth century.