THE SIXTIES

Awakening with a smile at the beginning of the 60's when Clizia, an artist from Torino, conceived the Colonia Internazionale degli Artisti, where painters, sculptors, writers, musicians, dancers, poets, potters, could find space to both live and work

 

The first to join him were the painter Vanni Giuffré and the poet Giovanni Fronte

Clizia and Giovanni Fronte in 1961 in front of the Osteria degli Artisti

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clizia in Bussana Vecchia in 1961

Vanni Giuffré

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Followed by artists and crafts people from such places as Great Britain, France, Germany, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Chekoslovakia and Italy, with their bare hands without water or electricity, they cleared the rubble restored houses, later installing a sewage system.

 

The tavern keeper Ottavio Baicchi and his wife

With no help from outside the village, respecting the medieval characteristics of the buildings, using bricks and stones reclaimed from the rubble

 

Taking great care to leave the facades of the houses as they had been when their original inhabits abandoned them after the earthquake

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