Gibellina Nuova, Sicily. The Star at the entrance of the town, work of the artist Pietro Consagra. Since the 80's artists, architects and men of culture, together with Gibellina citizens, have been involved in the difficult work of reconstruction of the town destroyed by the earthquake of 1968.
Menfi, Sicily. The D'Anneo brothers that, like their mother, are born in the barraks and still live there. They have never lived in a brick house.
Gibellina Vecchia, Sicily. The giant sculpture of land art called " Il Cretto", by the artist Alberto Burri. It reproduces the planimetry of the old town.
Gibellina Nuova, Sicily. One of the houses destroyed by the earthquake of 1968.
Don Cesare Grasselli, priest of San Salvatore in Acquapagana near Serravalle. Don Cesare during the emergency after the earthquake in 1997 managed milions of Euros for the first aid.
Cesi, the new village under construction.
Lorenzo Francesconi, inhabitan of Cassignano. On the backgroung the falling church of Cassignano.
Temporary village of Fondi, Umbria.
S. Venerina, Sicily. The "Church-Tent" welcomes two of the three parishes of the town since their churches haven't been repaired yet.
Carmelo (15) in Ricigliano (Basilicata). He moved here with his mother in 1991, after the death of his father, abandoning the remote mountain village they were living in. The Irpinia earthquake also hit numerous villages outside the Campania region. Here, prefabricated homes can still be found, and only now these have started to be demolished and cleared from the asbestos present in the concrete walls and in the roofs. It seems that the local mafia controls this lucrative business.
In Basilicata as well, after more than 25 years, many prefabricated villages are still inhabited. Nowadays, in addition to original displaced persons, new dwellers can be found, among which low-income families and people returning to the original villages. This second wave of inhabitants is son of the recent house crisis.
Along the road to Calitri, an unfinshed building.
In Irpinia, after the 1980 earthquake, almost all towns have suffered extreme emigration rates and today the low employment rate makes the risk of losing the young generation even more concrete.
What remains today of the school of San Giuliano in Puglia, where on the 31st of Octtober 2002 the whole first floor of the newly renovated school fell over the lower floor, killing 27 children and one teacher.
Vincenzo Morelli in the emergency village of the town of San Giuliano in Puglia where he has been living since the 31st of Octtober 2002 earthquake.
A street in the center of L'Aquila on Monday the 6th, 2009, the day of the earthquake.
Jospehn, fropm Romania, lives in Piazza d'Armi, among the few tents that still remain occupied in once the largest temporary camp of the city. Now, runners go back to use the tracks fro a jog, and a few families and immigrants occupy the tents, with the fear that the cold weather will make their lives hard soon.
July 2009. Construction of the semipermanent village in Sassa, close to Coppito, where the G8 summit took place.
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