PRODUCTIONS: EUGANEI HILLS

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Daniele Cini

SD Cinematografica

26 min.

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There is a magical corner in the Veneto that is neither plain nor mountain, and where, in a enchanting landscape designed by unusual reliefs of volcanic origin, you will meet ancient villages, among the most beautiful in Italy. It's the Euganei Hills.
Arquà, the city where Francesco Petrarca spent his last years of life, seems to be built in harmony with his verses.
Around, the spring landscape presents the richness of its products: from the meadows of lavender to the peas of the famous "risi and bisi", to the jugulars from which a liqueur syrup is extracted that they call "the broth – precisely – of jugulars, the workshops and countryside of this Regional park, transmit the care and industriousness of its inhabitants.
You can also feel it from the sumptuous villas surrounded by spectacular gardens, in this land that curiously reminds many – and not only Petrarca – Tuscany: almond and olive vines, vapours and thermal waters, which continually remind the traveler of the volcanic origin. Tangible signs that remain in the mines of trachite, a two-tone marble with which St. Mark's Square was paved in Venice, or in the clay quarries, which through a dense network of canals reached Este, where for centuries refined ceramics are produced.
And through the beauty of these artifacts, we discover that in this somewhat special territory, work also has its own side of poetry.