Stories
What the places alone do not tell you
Geology that becomes a trade, the trade that becomes landscape, the landscape that becomes art. Six long reads that hold distant places together.
The gypsum culture
A mountain that lets itself be dug
At Gessopalena they did not build a village on the rock: they built it inside. Then, in two days of December 1943, almost nothing was left.
8 minutes' read
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Biodiversity
Noah's Ark
Seashore plants growing thirty kilometres inland, firs more southern than their neighbours, four truffle genotypes out of the seven in Europe. The Sangro valley is a refuge.
6 minutes' read
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Arte Natura
A territory as a laboratory
In 1994 an artist from Roccascalegna persuaded colleagues from half of Europe to come and live in this valley and leave a work behind. Not in a gallery: in the landscape.
7 minutes' read
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Food
The red gold
A vegetable brought from the Americas changed the landscape, the diet and the identity of a village. At Altino they have made a museum of it.
5 minutes' read
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The coast
The colossal spider
D'Annunzio called them that, and the name has stuck. Wooden fishing machines suspended over the water, on a coast where oranges still grow.
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The project
Who made this Ecomuseum
It was not born in a council department. It was born in a secondary school, between 2018 and 2019, from students sent out to look at their own land with the eyes of those who will decide its future.
6 minutes' read
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