Anxieties spill over like a black spot on the timeline. Travels, departures, returns, thoughts. In recent years, the wind of migration has emptied Calabria, filling other regions. Above all, it is young people who continue to leave. Often forced, they find themselves writing a new story far from their homes, from their loved ones. And so, Easter and Easter Monday, in this land, are never just banal moments and occasions for celebration but represent the return to the roots, the suspension of time, a parenthesis in which distances are shortened.
For thousands of Calabrians, the short return has taken on the characteristics of desperation expressed by the dizzying increase in the prices of trains, flights and buses. Skyrocketing mobility costs, as a reflection of an uncertainty that has overturned habits: the war in the Middle East weighs on routes, on prices, on the very perception of movement. The crazy price lists have reduced the right to mobility even when going out. And so, according to a survey by Coldiretti-Terranostra-Campagna Amica, 44% of Calabrians will choose not to leave home and, in any case, will move within this region which is turning in on itself. And so the 0 km choice will guide families, above all, towards the 550 agritourism structures that combine hospitality and rural identity.
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