Qualità visuali della città barocca salentina.

Lots of urban transformation in the XVI-XVII centuries led to original and surprising urban scenes in some centers of Terra d’ Otranto: spatial conformations and visual solutions marked in fact in Salento the image of the Baroque city. This image is not simply the result of a wide spread of baroque interventions, nor the sum of churches, chapels, palaces, individual dwellings, of elements of street furniture and each decorative element, but the urban perception that comes out where the baroque elements have a precise location, a succession, a concatenation that leads to recognize in the urban baroque scene a direction, a spatial control, a visual strategy. We can thought this is the result of a ordinate direction well aware of the visual / perceptual effects and these effects aren’t result of the thought of a single personality but rather a collective result; and it is possible to recognize a geometric / spatial and a perceptual / visual control too. I an effort to recognize, define, order these features we are leading from several years systematic campaigns of urban survey in two of the main centers of the Baroque in Salento: Lecce and Martina Franca.