It was a Sunday afternoon in early September 1989, on an anonymous and desolate road inPoland. The crash was terrible, but it was fatal for Gaetano Scirea the resulting fire. Accompanied by a local driver was going to the Warsaw airport to return toItaly. Then he was...
How small is the world. And life, as you know, is made of coincidences. Common places, according to some. But often they tell everyday reality. A few days ago I was taking in a guided tour trough the Sassi a group from Modena: thirty sprightly pensioners on a trip...
"Civitas Mariae". The inscription on the portal of the convent of St. Lucia and St. Agatha in Piazza Vittorio Veneto reminds that Matera in 1954 was proclaimed the Marian town. Besides the town has always been placed under the protection of Our Lady, who is the...
Griffin Nelson is an American man who teaches philosophy at the University of Dallas. Who cares, someone will think. Right, but the Griffin family’s got Lucanian origin, precisely from Potenza. Well but there are millions of Italo-Americans and thousands with Lucanian...
"An underground river, slow but powerful ... that flows quietly, accompanying and pushing inexorably towards the sea the hardships and hopes, the sorrows of love and pains as well as the joys and childish games of human communities. It sometimes happens that it...
Doing the tour guide is passionating and rewarding. A beautiful and varied work, just like the world. And do we have to do almost daily with people from all latitudes that express different needs. Yes, because the tourist is not an alien but a mere mortal: of course,...