Vulnerability analysis in the historic centre of Salò

The Salò historic centre seismic vulnerability assessment was carried out in the context of an Italian national project to apply a general methodology developed by a multidisciplinary group of experts. Two fundamental concepts guided the latter: on the one hand the need to assess carefully the seismic response of traditional buildings representing an important testimony of the past while being potentially vulnerable to ground shaking; on the other, the idea that historic centres are not made only by monuments but also by places, open spaces, roads, ordinary buildings, and by the relationship between places and people.