Here we are again with two new features: the first post dedicated to a locality in Abruzzo and, above all, the first post made with the decisive contribution of our dearest Genny, who carried out the site inspection and provided us with all the photographic material. We are talking about Azzinano di Tossicia, a small town in the province of Teramo; to describe it we steal the words from the Pro Loco website (www.imuriraccontano.it): Azzinano is harmoniously inserted in a green landscape, typically Abruzzo, dotted with scattered farmhouses, leaning against the numerous hills marked by ditches and streams, gently sloping down towards the wild Adriatic of D'Annunzio. The countryside here takes on a thousand different aspects, according to the view of the beholder, all framed by the exhilarating and masculine beauty of the "vertical" of the Gran Sasso and by the grace of the Monti della Laga. The beautiful seasons are underlined by a symphony of colors and scents that enhance the senses: and it could not be otherwise for a territory strongly and deliberately constrained in terms of landscape and inserted both in a National Park (Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga), and in a Regional Nature Reserve (Fiumetto River). The historic center of Azzinano betrays the typical Abruzzo mountain architecture and looks like a "candy box" with the houses leaning against each other, the narrow and shady alleys, the cobbled streets that reveal an ancient mastery, and many wall paintings that illustrate the games devised by the children, when there was no television and play station. And these cobbled streets, easily accessible by wheelchair, lead us to illustrate what is the most important attraction of the town, namely the project “The walls tell”. Born in 2001 from an intuition of Luciano Marinelli, it consists in the creation of murals in naive style, in honor of the illustrious fellow citizen Annunziata Scipione, a great peasant painter, murals made by the most prestigious Italian painters, which have as their theme "the games of the past ". Those who have followed us in these two years know that we love murals very much and we like to show them on the blog; we were happy to discover Valogno at the time, in the province of Caserta, and now we are the same for this small town in the Teramo area, of which we will immediately move on to illustrate the streets and the painted walls of the houses:
What do you think? We liked them a lot, precisely because of their being "naive"; on the other hand, the way of looking at a mural painting cannot be the same as the way of looking at a painting in a museum, indeed we could say that the functions of the two artistic expressions are very different from each other. These wall paintings seem to us to have a strong ability to communicate immediately, and that's okay. However this village, as well as the municipality of Tossicia to which it belongs, also deserves an in-depth study for all the other things that there are to see, as you can see from the Pro Loco website; we will try to do this in the future, certainly including our usual restaurant information. Soon!