PRODUCTIONS: STORIES OF SALENTO BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT

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Piero Cannizzaro

SD Cinematografica

26 min.

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The sun, the sea, the wind. It is the nature that strikes you when you arrive in this narrow strip of land that stretches between two seas. Dry stone walls, olive trees, fields of wheat, sand and pebbles beaches. This stretch of Puglia, the Salento, is famous worldwide for its ancient traditions, Mediterranean landscapes and the mystery of an ancient culture. The Salento continues to enchant travellers who cross it with the charm of its legends and the many secrets hidden within the walls of its historic remains. A place of sounds, songs and folk music located at the extreme south of the Italian peninsula, once a magnificent harbour for ships from the East, it still retains a great artistic heritage and an atmosphere that, more than any other, preserves the sense of its origins. In this corner of the Mediterranean, the atmosphere remains unique, wonder overwhelms reality, human rhythms meet those of nature and are repeated as in an ancestral ritual.