The old Cardito’s garden drawing remaining traces

Architectural survey is always the through for documentation and is set up as the first operation for an objective and indispensable knowledge. It is the instrument and the mean to investigate, understand and acquire forms and historical events knowledge directly from the surveyed object that becomes the itself principal document. In this contribution, the survey aims to be an investigative tool for the Mezzogiorno rural settlements (South Italy) knowledge with little historical evidence. Specifically it was examined and surveyed in the Cardito town, in Naples province, the historical garden adjoining the castle, which today is profoundly changed and it is in a total abandonment state. The research has moved to the building remaining traces surveying, restoring the historical configuration old garden and the restore road axis interrupted by the new buildings construction. The journey system that started in the current Garibaldi square, connected the main castle portal entrance to its courtyard, to the garden behind its and culminated in a ovate widening from which still extends another road axis called Belvedere street intersected by Vico del Giardino (Garden’s street).