Calabria, the country’s fragile laboratory: the villages start again from baby artisans

John

By John

The color of the shadow, typical of our time, fills our lives. Behind the scenes of the crisis, the social drama of entire parts of Calabria that is dying out is taking place. They are the internal areas that exit the scene, sliding towards the abyss. And so staying in the world, surviving in the South of the South of Italy has become very complicated. Therefore a carpentry workshop or a shop of ancient crafts, in general, reopening in a village is a choice, a political act. It is a silent response to the flight of young people and the demographic winter that advances with the inexorable force of forgotten seasons.
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