![]() cookieless, no-ads, no threats canyon exploring with Michele Angileri Burrone Muricello
![]() Burrone Muricello's canyon gradually becomes more tight and majestic as it approaches to the confluence into Burrone Iornito.
  I remember ...These hills are re-wilding, like many other parts of Italy. Many plots of land are still cultivated, but others are abandoned and more will be soon as the old people who still cultivate them will die. The agriculture and breeding that can be done on these hills no longer seem to be of interest in comparison to other more comfortable and perhaps profitable works, despite the fact that today tractors, machines and fertilizers make agriculture easier. A few decades ago, however, things were different ... In 1949 the locals were hungry, and wanted to cultivate the untilled grounds of latifundia. They were protesting, asking for the application of the decrees
issued by agriculture minister Gullo, which gave peasants the possibility to take possession of the uncultivated land. And they occupied land, traced borders through
the latifundia.
Nowadays nobody seems to care of living here and cultivating these lands. Only a small memorial lost in the hills remembers the fallen of Fragalà, and refers us to a recent yet far time when these hills teemed with life and work. Copyright © 2002- Michele Angileri. All rights reserved. |
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