Miagliano and its Secrets. An Illustrated Guide to the Post-Industrial Village of Miagliano

The village is at the heart of every community who live shape and love it as the extension of their own homes. In the village people are born they grow and become fond of the local culture that is absorbed unconsciously leaving an indelible mark in the soul of every single individual. Everything is taken for granted till the day you come back home after a long journey and permanence abroad and only then you realise that you were in love with a village whose history and peculiarities you didn't really know. At that point you are inspired to search and to discover the past and the present of this 'friend' and the outcome of your work becomes an illustrated guidebook whose contents you wish to share with the rest of the world.As the Italian novelist Cesare Pavese quoted: You need a village if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone knowing that in the people the trees the earth there is something that belongs to you waiting for you when you are not there.