Un luogo bello
by Alessandro Mallamaci
portfolio special mention call 'URBANAUTICA INSTITUTE AWARDS 2021', 2021
Category: Anthropology and Territories
"The people of Calabria have a sense of fatality; they conceive of life on the image of their 'fiumare' that sooner or later overwhelm everything. 'Bend, tree, for the flood will pass', is their motto." Corrado Alvaro
The valley of the Sant’Agata river is nestled in the red land of the mountains of Aspromonte, in Southern Italy, and flows towards the sea, until it dives into the Strait of Messina.
The name of the waterway originates from the Greek aghatè, which is linked to concepts such as beauty, goodness and nobility; as if travellers from the Magna Graecia period had been enchanted by this place.
This is my landscape. I cannot help but love it. It is a beautiful place.