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I PARCHI LETTERARI "IN THE DIMENSION OF THE JOURNEY"
- THE PLACES
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For the most sensitive travellers, the journey
is experienced as a sort of personal training
and rebirth; in Sicily Goethe finally
feels “reborn”, and “From Sicily and
Magna Grecia, today I am blessed with the hope
of renewed possibilities of life.” |
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Sicily and Magna Grecia symbolise the classicism that is
one of the main reasons for the journey to these places:
“The presence of the classic terrain... the
conviction, which is formed in the spirit through the
senses, that here there was true greatness, greatness
which is still here and which will be here in the
future.” (Goethe)
Once again on the wake of this amazement and also, this
time, an enthusiasm beyond that which is encountered
along the journey, step by step, cities, monuments, the
countryside, the other common motifs found in the
narrations that are continuously revealed, rich with
annotations and descriptions, include: food and drink,
the conviviality, the hospitality of the Sicilians,
interpreted as an ideal value... “the inhabitants of
Grigenti distinguish themselves, today as in the past,
for their sense of hospitality... The gift of
hospitality is quite diffuse throughout Southern Italy
and Sicily and they willingly welcome foreigners.” (Stolberg)
Empedocle said of Agrigento, his native city: “It is
a sacred place for guests, falsity is unknown.”
On the wave of this “amazement” and in the
company of many voices of the past or of a time closer
to the present, our ideal Storyteller for I Parchi
Letterari®® “In the Dimension of the Journey”
accompanies us hereafter, from West to East, to the main
destinations in the Province of Agrigento that were
visited by travellers, both ancient and modern at the
same time.
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