Journey in the Songlines of Italy

Delicious Italy attended a book presentation at the Archaeological and Art History Library, of the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali here in central Rome. 

It was an interactive  introduction to the book 'Carmen Via -  Journey in the Songlines of Italy'  by Bernard Anson Silj.

And also a point of departure for 'Pariaeza', a project which unites cultural tourism and environmental protection.

The aim of both is to stimulate our imagination, to recapture a language and sense of place and time in danger of being lost, but which was very much alive at the time of our ancestors.

Through music, song and verse we can look again at our past, present and future and approach a fast changing world with more perspective and direction.

Anyone with a minimum of sensitivity and interest in culture and history can  certainly feel a certain something when visiting the many historical locations across the Italian regions.

Carmen Via proposes the Grotto of Tiberius in Sperlonga, the Abbey of San Pietro in Valle in Umbria and the Etruscan settlements across Tuscany. But there are many more.

A journey to our past to take us to our future across the many cultures which have formed who were are and how we speak.

Of interest:

The Trinacria in Sicily
Mysterious Creatures of Lombardia
The Liguri