La teoria dei paesi vuoti

village devoid of human beings is not as firm and immutable as one imagines: it pushes, shouts, suffers, hopes. Mauro Daltin takes us by the hand to discover the lost countries, the most evocative ones with the most fascinating stories. His are emotional snapshots: photographs of countries suspended in another time, black holes on maps where sometimes it is nature, or resistant creatures, that preserve the memory of life. We move from the famous Craco in Basilicata to the countless Atlantis of the Northeast, the cities submerged by water; from the surreal Consonno in Lombardy to California in the province of Belluno; until it crossed over into Cyprus, Spain, and across the ocean, into the United States and Japan. Among their streets we listen to the whisper of the ghosts of the past, we are amazed to find sprouts of new life, we walk on a ridge balanced between forgetfulness and resilience. Let's discover what we have been and what we could become.