Underground4Value



The COST Action CA18110 Underground Built Heritage as Catalyser for Community Valorisation brings together experts and communities to reveal the hidden value of underground built heritage, fostering memory, identity, dialogue, creativity, and sustainable cultural regeneration across Europe.




EMPATHS


EMpowering landscapes with Participatory Approaches to Heritage interpretation Skills is an Erasmus+ project empowering heritage professionals and communities to co-create participatory interpretations of cultural heritage, fostering civic engagement, inclusion, and sustainable territorial transitions.

Heritage and Community Identity

Published by Cnr Edizioni, this series was launched in 2021 to share the results of the COST Action Underground4value. Directed by Giuseppe Pace, the series aims at promoting sustainable approaches for preserving cultural heritage and unlocking its potential for urban and rural regeneration.

UBH definition

Defining Underground Built Heritage (UBH)

Three types of building activities, namely architectural, urban and landscape heritage below the surface of the earth, which the contemporary generation resolves have “cultural values”

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Giuseppe Pace

Action Chair

Empowering Community Transformation

ToolBox

Explore essential tools and resources to support the sustainable development of underground heritage. From strategic planning to legal frameworks and digital resources, find everything you need to drive meaningful change.

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Strategic Transition Practice
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Underground Built Heritage Hidden Memory, Shared Value

Underground Built Heritage includes historic underground structures like catacombs, shelters, and tunnels.
These spaces uncover hidden urban histories and cultural transformations.

Often overlooked, they are vital to understanding the past and local identity.
Preserving them means keeping memory alive for today’s communities.

Giuseppe Pace

Action Chair

Preserving Cultural Treasures

We celebrate these remarkable sites as invaluable cultural assets to preserve and protect.

Reviving Communities Through Heritage

But we don’t stop there: where sustainable, we champion their thoughtful reuse and valorisation to breathe new life into local communities.

Shaping a Shared Future

Join us in transforming underground heritage into a powerful catalyst for sustainable development, identity, and shared prosperity.

Exploring Places, Empowering Communities

Heritage Labs

The Ancient White Marble Quarries of Paros

The ancient marble quarries on the Island of Paros were in operation from the Early Cycladic period (3,200 BC) until the 19th century. Their golden era was from the 7th century BC to the 3rd century AD and is mainly associated with the extraction of the highly translucent lychnites marble from the underground galleries of the Nymphs’ and Pan’s quarries.

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Fontanelle Cemetery – Naples

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Camerano Caves

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