🌲CALCATA: where Artistic and Cultural HERITAGE coexist peacefully ...

Hello everyone and happy Sunday.☺️

Today I want to tell you about a little trip I took with my family to one of the most unique villages in Italy perched on a small mountain, Calcata.
In addition to being surrounded by nature, this village of 900 inhabitants has a very particular history and today is a destination of a non-mass tourism attentive to the needs of the place.

Let's start from the beginning: during the years of Fascism, Calcata had to be demolished because it was considered unsafe, in fact in the 1930s a law was enacted to clear out all the villages in which it was dangerous to live.
But for some incomprehensible reason, the demolition of Calcata ended up in oblivion and the small village remained in its place on a tufaceous spur on the Treja Valley.
Unfortunately over time the village emptied itself because the inhabitants began to move to the new neighborhoods around Calcata.
Then in the 70s its charm began to attract many artists of different nationalities who still live there, who began to sell their works in the shops that follow one another through the alleys of the town and to restore life and splendor to a medieval village that he didn't deserve to be forgotten. The village is now also known as the who began to sell their works in the shops that follow one another through the alleys of the town and to restore life and splendor to a medieval village that he didn't deserve to be forgotten. The village is now also known as the Village of Artists.

Walking in these ancient places, as well as being fascinated by its artistic and cultural heritage and the unspoiled nature that surrounds it, one is struck by the presence of numerous cats that sleep slyly throughout the country.
It can be said that they are another attraction of the country that play an important social role as they welcome tourists, let themselves be pampered and do not mind being an integral part of the landscape.

Nature and past coexist peacefully, an example of a city ecosystem that works and could inspire many other realities, because I am convinced that every cemented corner of our cities, even the most modern and technological ones, can host green spaces, improving their appearance and above all improving the quality of the air that is unfortunately polluted and harmful to our health.
We must rediscover the sense of nature that unfortunately the last generations have lost, I don't want to go into anthropological discourses but in short, the abandonment of the countryside in the past to reach the most industrialized cities and the subsequent urbanization of the countryside, have drastically transformed the places we live in.

I'm not saying we need to go back, but our relationship with nature must certainly be reviewed, especially in large cities.
And where the institutions do not arrive, it is up to us citizens to take the initiative to improve the places we live, sometimes it takes very little even colorful flower pots on the balconies. It is a start.