An energy-resilient methodology in climate changing challenge for historic districts. The case of a Mediterranean historic center

Focus on the uncertainties of climate change in the built environment, on the energy responsi-bilities of the residential building stock and the widespread dichotomy between transformation and preservation in cultural heritage in a long perspective, the paper points out a detailed meth-particular part of cities for their unplanned design, suffer and participate to the climate changes and local interactions as innate elements of their environmental and anthropic existence, they are the result of the genius loci experiences in reacting with the environment as their inherent value. In detail of results in the second part of the paper, the methodology is applied to a representative -ities to climate change, local alterations of microclimate and critical emergencies on summery conditions in energy processes of recovery.