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The high-magnitude 1783 earthquakes that hit the  Calabria Ulteriore  caused the destruction of most of the built environment as well as numerous fatalities. Following such a catastrophe, the ruler of the  Regno di Napoli  launched an ambitious reconstruction plan, regulated by the enactment of a code whose principles anticipate those on which modern seismic engineering relies. The Borbone government regulation, in addition to referring to new buildings, also established provisions on how to repair and retrofit existing buildings. A singular application of the latter instructions, unknown to the scientific literature on the topic, emerged in a recent strengthening intervention of a church in the Catanzaro area (Calabria region) that was repaired in the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes of the late eighteenth century. Confirmation of the use of such a seismic retrofitting system came from some ancient documents found in the archive of the  Cassa Sacra  preserved in Catanzaro, which describe in detail restoration work following the earthquake of 1783. Furthermore, the paper addresses a qualitative seismic assessment of that construction system and proposes strengthening measures for its conservation.

New Insights on the Borbone Construction System: a Peculiar 18th Century Retrofitting Solution for Earthquake Damaged Churches