Tarquinia

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Description: For those arriving from the inland, it announces itself with a solitary bell tower, standing out against the blue horizon of the Tyrrhenian Sea. From the North, it reveals the profile of a proud, turreted cliff. From the South, it shows the gentle alignments of a hill town that not even recent and vile urbanization has managed to deface. But only to those who set their soul and steps into its painted depths, in the maze of its alleys, in the seductive paths that nature has painted around it, does Tarquinia reveal its authentic face. [...]

A book that does not aim to offer an exhaustive presentation of the city's history, as that would be presumptuous. Nor is it a photographic guide for tourists, as that would be pedestrian. Rather, it is a cordial invitation to those who dwell there and to those who stop by. To the former, so that, emulating the poet Vincenzo Cardarelli, they may ideally retrace his steps outside the city gates, to observe their city from the outside, as he used to do. And perhaps rediscover the reasons to overcome the sterile enchantment and comfortable resignation towards their own town, and remember that the honor of living amidst such beauty requires the awareness of each and the commitment of all. To the latter, so that they may surrender to the desire for discovery that alone inspires every true journey and that in Tarquinia will surely find many reasons to be satisfied. Without ever being extinguished.

Product Details

Editor: Baiocchi Lisa and Berengo Gardin Alberto
Photographs by: Novelli Alberto
Format: 23x31.5 cm
Pages: 157, paperback, color photos
Text: Italian
Isbn: 9788895203768
Year of publication: 2018
Condition: New Product