Calabria is a land scarred by territorial inequalities. Differences found in schools, healthcare, transport and essential services in general. In inland towns people suffer from isolation and abandonment more than elsewhere, with young people fleeing and families aging. Silence fills above all the small urban agglomerations, those of the houses clinging to the rocky ridges or spread out in the middle of increasingly lonely and futureless countryside. The surrender of young people fuels the exodus towards more generous territories. The Confartigianato survey, which measures the ability of territories to welcome, retain and grow new generations, returns for 2025 the image of a region suspended between structural fragility and unexpected islands of resilience.
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