There are places full of poetry, where the echo of a story no longer visible can be perceived in the air and makes even a simple blade of grass special.

The artist Giovanni Santi, Raphael's father, attributed to the Muses the ability to make visible the strength of the myth hidden in the elements of the landscape. This is why we have called the Vallefoglia area Parco delle Muse e delle Ninfe.

And there is no more suitable place to reveal the Muses than the territory of Serra di Genga and Coldelce.

There are places that need to be reactivated so that their ancestrality, their ancient strength is not lost in simple abandonment: a more attentive and curious look is needed, greater attention to detail, the will to use memory but also imagination, when remembering means visualizing what has disappeared for centuries.

Serra di Genga and Coldelce deserve this attention and a walkscape, to grasp the transformations of the territory: from an area of churches and castles to an abandoned area, from a place full of history and humanity to an almost unknown territory. The contemporary gaze leads us to find the traces of what binds people today to that ancestral place, going back to distant times.

Promoted by the City of Vallefoglia

Project Antonella Micaletti, Roberto Vecchiarelli

Coordination/Digital: Settimio Perlini

Naturalistic aspects consultancy: Andrea Fazi

Collection of stories edited by Active Longevity Project - Fattoria del Borgo - Montefabbri

Bibliography:

Leonardo Moretti, Castles suspended between dream and memory

Photographs: Photos taken from Moretti's book "Suspended Castles", Marcolini Archive, Settimio Perlini

Texts by Alessandra Mindoli on visitvallefoglia.it

The walkscape is part of the Park of the Muses and Nymphs project