The Thermae Museum of Latronico, housed in a historic building built in 1928, is founded by the municipality of Latronico, in the province of Potenza, and by the Pollino National Park, with the aim to deepening and spreading knowledge on the municipal the

Abstract

In this aim we take in examination the relationship among water resources and fortified settlements of a portion of the
upper Volturno Valley, in Molise, in the Middle Ages. Through the contained data in the Chronicon Vulturnense, has
been possible to track the incidence that the courses of water had in the distribution of the population and result clear the
importance of the Volturno and its numerous tributaries as principals sources of water provisioning within the process of
fortification of the Earth of St. Vincent. Also the topographical, cartographic and toponomastic study of the area object
of this search has allowed, filling in some cases the silence of the sources, to recover a lot of information for a territory,
that of north-western Molise, for the most mountainous and tall hilly, characterized by a thick vegetation and, therefore,
rich of water. Different sources and courses of water have been individualized, that, licking up the promontories and
the necks on which the villages and the fortifications are planned, had to furnish the necessary water requirement to the
resident population, showing, once more, as the binomial man-water, man-natural environment, is tightly connected
with the start of every historical trial.