The result of an exploration of the Foggia countryside conducted by Aldo Amoretti in collaboration with Giuseppe Tupputi (architect and university researcher), the photographic project "Journey to the Tavoliere delle Puglie" explores the reclaimed villages of the Capitanata area—Segezia, Giardinetto, Incoronata, Mezzanone, and Cervaro—and their relationship with the landscape of the Tavoliere delle Puglie. Despite undergoing an inexorable process of depopulation and abandonment, their civic towers and bell towers dotting the plain continue to mark, from a distance, a system of isolated presences, an archipelago in the flat, expansive ocean of land. Built between the 1930s and 1940s, often left unfinished and largely uninhabited since the 1980s, these villages represent a broken vision, embodying a territorial vision that, begun with the land reclamation and land transfer entrusted to the ONC in 1938 and then gradually abandoned, organized a unified yet complex system of farms, services, infrastructure, and settlements. Today, these appear as urban forms and spaces alienated from the countryside: Italian squares become the backdrop to an act without actors. All around, the flat countryside of the Tavoliere stretches endlessly: a landscape where wonder alternates with abandonment and forgetfulness, where beauty and authenticity coexist with neglect and indifference. These contradictions constitute the enigma of the rural landscape of the Tavoliere delle Puglie. The goal is to seek new ways to observe, describe, and reinterpret these places, to offer them the light of a new narrative. The result of a morphological, spatial, and landscape analysis of the villages in relation to their territorial layout, the project views the villages not as autonomous episodes but as nodes of a territorial vision that today manifests itself through fragments, traces, and imprints. This is why the proposed photographic project takes distance, emptiness, and estrangement as interpretative keys to the relationship between architecture and landscape. Photographed under opaque skies, in the soft light of dawn or dusk, the remains of the villages appear like monasteries in the deserted plain, expressing both the elementary nature of their construction—deeply rooted in the rural attitude of this province—and the sophisticated composition of their whole: systems of squares, courtyards, and courtyards, connections that articulate orientations, views, and glimpses expertly projected onto the surrounding landscape. One question remains unanswered at the end of this journey: what will become of this plain called Tavoliere because it is flat and deep like the sea? What is the fate of the villages and their inhabitants? Is it still possible to inhabit the immense distances of the countryside through the reconstruction of archipelagos of urban, landscape, and human relationships? Or is this countryside destined to become an increasingly abysmal ocean of large estates hiding recent ruins and dramatic wrecks? (Text Giuseppe Tupputi)