History, infact, canbe told in thousand ways: there are the great heroes and the small hidden men, not less valorous, there are the great castles and the old, narrow, stony huts, the famous classic poems and the simple stories of the every day life, the legends handed down from generation to generation.
And so the Appennino has transmitted its witticism, its ways of saying and proverbs, small cutoffs of life and crumbs of wisdom.
Happy words, jokes, ironical orserious, thoughtful or metaphoric, coming always from knowledges and ancient experiences, many, for many topics.
Small historic and sapiential heritage, come till us, in fact, through “oral” transmission, since, till the end of the XIX century, in our Appennino, just the dialect was spoken and the great majority didn’t know how to write.
It’s really through these words, authentic “pearls” of communication, that is easier and more pleasant to reconstruct the history of the mountain man and of his world.

Author: Veronica Teglia

S. M. R. Visita il Bacino di Suviana 07-09-1933
Foto concessa dalla Famiglia Tovoli (Suviana)


2- Costruzione Bacino di Suviana
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