Restoring the emotions: the religious buildings between memory and value enhancement

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Cultural heritage belonging to religious institutions represents a significant part of the whole artistic estate of our country. Today, one of the main problem affecting the church properties is in the abandoning of those places - due both to the loosing of their old use and their closing to the public. The perspective for this kind of heritage is sometimes to get a new function, or to suffer degradation and demolition. Religious architectures are still today an exceptional part of the landscape. They survived through many centuries, even if they lost their original dedicated value. The religious heritage was part of a cultural and perceptive net that is still today an immaterial inheritance, as we can see it in the landscape nowadays. This kind of approach, based on a multidisciplinary contribution, allows the understanding of traces continuity in landscapes. And even traces that today are lost, they are still part of a cultural set. Thankfully to devotional paths, we are able to recreate the ancient images of places and their territorial value. A good governance model has to be done carefully with the support of multidisciplinary analysis. Especially in case of religious heritage it's important to enhance the immaterial aspect, sometimes even more than the material one.