The concept, conceived by architect Marco Piva together with GEMANCO Design, was born from a recent synergy between the international architecture firm and the administrations of the municipalities involved, and will be presented on Monday 5 February at 3.40 pm in the conference room of the Puglia Region stand at the International Tourism Exchange (BIT).
PIETRAMADRE is the candidacy project of a territory that reveals the purity of its geometric and austere forms, of its unexpected and breathtaking views, of its bucolic and centuries-old landscapes, stratified "house by house, alley by alley" (see Pasolini) in a fossil and uncorrupted architecture carved in stone by the divine work of nature or by the wisdom of human arts. PIETRAMADRE is the only element capable in its natural state of stopping time in a specific year or century, of resisting it, of conserving and generating eternal beauty.
PIETRAMADRE traces a perfect and surprising perimeter that goes back from the sea to the valley, preserves underground mysteries sculpted by nature and legendary architectures shaped by civilization, reveals new perspectives of cultural circularity in a mirror game in which the below generates the above in the infinite flow of time : a clear time. Once liquid but crystallized in stone'.
In this extraordinary journey, the STONE tells of a way of being, a way of thinking and a way of living of a land that has never built walls to divide but only dry stone walls to guide and preserve: the PIETRAMADRE that welcomes, protects and accompanies along millenary paths of life and culture and which designs bridges, paths and unpredictable exchanges between those territories whose cultures are inextricably intertwined by millennia of history and which decide, together, to continue to trace new paths of growth and development.
Alberobello, a UNESCO heritage site since 1996, is therefore the leader of an ambitious candidacy that synergistically intertwines forces with Castellana Grotte, Polignano a Mare and Noci to transform some of the most important tourist, gastronomic and artisanal attractors into cultural activators of the entire territory. A path of sustainability and cultural circularity : culture that generates culture by pouring it into the territory through the austere and wild beauty of STONE expressed in time and space. MOTHERSTONE
