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One may travel in various ways: a parcel post, for example,travels tightly closed and wrapped in its packaging without ob-serving in deatils the territory through which it passes. The tra-veller may choose to walk in this way and there are people whotravel with the consciousness of a postal parcel. Conversely,the journey may become an experience of cultural enrichment,for example by enquiring on the historical events that causedthe peculiar character of the landscape and of the human sett-lements that one is crossing. This guide is aimed at those who intend to walk with thespirit of this second way without restricting themselves tocounting the steps they have walked and the steps still ahead,but looking around with the healthy curiosity of someone whowant to understand. The landscape, the lay-out of the settle-ments and the network of roads, which are, in fact, the resultof precise events, only partly dictated by the land form: muchof the landscape form is due to man’s labour, by the needs ofpeople to intervene to modify the environment in terms ofproduction and by the ancestral will to excel and to take com-mand over nature. All elements that may be summarized in ahistorical proce

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Author

Franco Alessandri

Published

2020

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction