di Valentina Barresi

In the heart of Western Sicily, lays a ghost-town that managed to survive its darkest hour, defying the elements and people's indifference while miraculously remaining standing. In a passionate struggle against time and neglect the small baroque center, rich of art and history but forgotten until yesterday and desecrated, is starting to see new life forty eight years after the earthquake that destroyed most of it.

Each new day could be the last for the wounded buildings of ancient Poggioreale whose many artistic sites were left unattended for almost half a century since January 15th 1968, a date that marked the destiny of the little towns of the Valle del Belice, such as neighboring Salaparuta and Gibellina, all reduced to rubble in a cold winter day.

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Fonte: La Voce di New York