The Domus Fassa Bortolo International Awards aim to reward excellence in the field of heritage care. In this, the sixth edition, for the first time in the history of the awards, the chosen projects come from all continents and number 105 in total. The awards are given out by the Fassa Bortolo Society and the Universit\u00e0 degli Studi Di Ferrara (Italy).<\/p>\n
In February, the judges decided to award the gold medal to the project by Toni Giron\u00e8s from the URV\u2019s School of Architecture because of the improvements it has made to the Roman ruins of Can Tac\u00f3, located between the towns of Montmel\u00f3 and Montorn\u00e8s del Vall\u00e8s in the province of Barcelona.<\/p>\n
At Can Tac\u00f3, the Roman site is located at the Tur\u00f3 d\u2019en Roina, which faces south and is 50 metres above the confluence of the rivers Congost and Mogent, at the source of the river Bes\u00f3s and some 20 km from where it meets the Mediterranean Sea. Forming part of the Turons de les Tres Creus, it is a natural enclave in an environment that has been highly fragmented by human activity. The project<\/a> aims to recover and give value to the site\u2019s natural and archaeological heritage. The Roman site can be found at the end of a tranquil and winding walk through a small oak wood and consists of a Roman palace whose room layouts can still clearly be seen. Built partly from local stone in successive phases, it was an important settlement prior to the construction of the Via Augusta and it is currently a natural viewpoint looking out over the Vall\u00e8s district.<\/p>\n The award ceremony will take place at 18.00 on 21 March in the prestigious Palazzo Tassoni Estense, home to the Department of Architecture of the Universit\u00e0 degli Studi Di Ferrara, where Toni Giron\u00e8s will give a talk explaining his award-winning work. The architect has won several prizes over the course of his professional career.<\/p>\n The Roman site of Can Tac\u00f3 was archaeologically investigated by the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC), affiliated to the URV, under the direction of Josep Guitart (UAB-ICAC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The award-winning project by the ETSA professor aims at improving the natural surroundings of the 2nd century A.D. Roman site at Can Tac\u00f3 in the Vall\u00e8s Oriental district<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[818,820,178,235,796,196],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","category-school-architecture","category-science-technology","category-society-culture","category-pdi-en","category-international"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}