Riesi and depopulation of the municipalities of Italy
My professional experience and my cultural curiosity have increasingly pushed in recent years towards research and exploration of Italian municipalities, especially those with less than 5000 inhabitants, often rich in history and tradition, com'anche a daily calendar.
Important was the collaboration with scholars and journalists, as well as his friendship with Luigi Veronelli, which allowed me to enter into a "world" is often unknown and unexplored as that of local productions.
Above all, the intellectual contribution of Veronelli gave me the tools to interpret and comprehend the dynamics and individual experiences of everyday life of cities, territories and municipalities Italians.
But the last three decades has established a process innarestabile, very dramatic for small local communities, namely that of "depopulation."
Just to "Republic" of Monday, August 24, I read that Riesi, a town of 12 thousand inhabitants in the province of Caltanissetta, became the capital of Italian emigration with an average annual depopulation three times higher than average in the South. Each month range away about 100 people.
I saw Riesi, in central Sicily near the valley of the river Salso. I heard the extraction of its sulfur, I savored and enjoyed to the Maccarruna carrittera the fuateddra, nougat as the feast of Our Lady of the Chain.
I wish this city and its territory would remain alive.
Roberto De Donno
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