Let's walk together, and step by step we'll try to leave behind the world of "important things", attempting to listen to this unique landscape as it whispers to us of it's secrets. If we're willing to allow our spirits to merge with the spirit of the land we'll hear what it's telling us and discover it's many beauties. It's no easy journey, but if we let go of our modern world preconceptions, and try to see and feel what is invisible to the eye, we'll find it's a journey that's well worth embarking on. We'll come across spunnulate (rock pools of very slightly salted water) where traveler, before the invention of the cars and asphalt, would pause to quench their thirst. We can learn about the Sarcopoterium spinosum (thorny burnet), a shrub of the rose genus, that despite its brave thorns is so fragile in this world of heartless machinery, and in Italy still only grows in this one area. We'll listen to the voice of the wind as it blows through the reeds and bulrushes recounting the story of the old captain, from whom these marshlands take their name, who after many years of sailing every sea, finally dropped anchor for the last time and remained here in this amazing location.
We will stop to think about why, the noisy destructive bulldozers are so impatient to get their tracks into the ancient olive orchards and Sarparea spring that have graced this land since the time of the captain, in order to raze them for construction of a residential complex. This is not land for construction but an important part of our heritage, and a part of our soul.
The two landscape agronomists, Doctor Bruno Vaglio and Doctor Cristian Casili, will accompany us on this adventure to help us see beyond that that we are seeing, and to make us aware of all that lives and breathes around us.
