ITALY
Appignano del Tronto
Appignano del Tronto lies in Central Italy, 20 kilometers from the A driatic Sea, and with its 1728 inhabitants it’s the second smallest stop on our journey. The medieval town is surrounded by grey-blue badlands, a beautiful but vulnerable hilly landscape. The badlands offer impressive shapes and colours, depending on the seasons, generated by different weather conditions such as sun, ice, rain and wind. But at the same time, the badlands with its landslides also pose a continuous threat to the town. Throughout the centuries the town has also suffered several times from earthquakes. Since this vulnerability affects not just the physical construction of the town but the soul of the inhabitants too, the main priority for the municipality is to strengthen their abilities to recover and rebound after disasters or economic crises. They seize every opportunity to become a safer and more competitive community, hoping that they will be able to transform a problem into an opportunity to regenerate the territory.
