L'AEROFOTOTECA NAZIONALE RACCONTA... [Italy's National Archive of Aerial Photography]

Authors

  • Elizabeth Jane Shepherd AFN

Keywords:

AFN, Italian archives, aerial photographs, historical collections, cultural heritage,

Abstract

Italian archives of aerial photographs have rich and varied holdings, which are a valuable source for the study of the landscape and of cultural heritage, especially in the vast parts of the country that have been
affected by significant transformation in the second half of the 20th century.

These archives are mostly military (Istituto Geografico Militare www.igmi.
org and the Air Force historical archives http://www.aeronautica.difesa.it/storia/ufficiostorico/) with a single exception: the Aerofototeca Nazionale (AFN)
http://www.iccd.beniculturali.it/index.php?it/98/aerofototeca-nazionale, the Italian national archive of aerial photography, today part of the Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività  Culturali e del Turismo (Ministry of Cultural Heritage
and Tourism http://www.beniculturali.it).

Published

2019-01-03

How to Cite

Shepherd, E. J. (2019). L’AEROFOTOTECA NAZIONALE RACCONTA. [Italy’s National Archive of Aerial Photography]. GEOmedia, 22(3). Retrieved from https://mediageo.it/ojs/index.php/GEOmedia/article/view/1600