Abstract: Annals of Marine Science Research

Abstract:
Triora, ancient and unconquered Podesteria of the Republic of Genoa (1261 – 1797) is the city of medieval ori gins built in the Upper Argentina Valley, in the Ligurian Alps, in the extreme west of Liguria on the border with France. The area along the Argentina stream had been inhabited since the Middle Neolithic and, above all, due to the barbarian and Saracen incursions, the population increasingly moved towards the mountains, giving rise to a fortified city during the Middle Ages, first subjected to the control of the Counts of Ventimiglia and from 1261 of the expanding Republic of Genoa. The urban nature of Triora, attested by its Statutes and the control it exercised over the surrounding territories as head of a Jurisdiction led by a Podestà appointed by the Republic of Genoa, combined with the vital need to have water to sustain long sieges, explain the presence of a complex, organized and widespread system of water collection, conservation and flow. This system deserves to be preserved, protected and studied in all its many aspects.