Welcoming Calabria
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Riace, Calabria - Italy
The train station of Riace. Its walls are filled with a murales with two faces: one is the famous bronze found in the sea within the area and the other is the Internal Affairs' Minister, Salvini. Under the bronze's portrait there is written "fished out from the sea of Riace", indeed below the portrait of Salvini is read "rescued from a sea of bullshit" which has been censored by unknown people.


Riace, Calabria - Italy
Domenico Lucano, a former elementary teacher and the current mayor of Riace. He is the founder of the "Città Futura . Future City" association in Riace. With it they give birth to a "widespread" reception project with the aim of involving refugees in a rural community that would be destined to disappear due to the high emigrations of local to the north. They have cleaned and refurbished streets and houses in ruins, created workshops that revive forgotten crafts, open shops, libraries and bars, kept kindergartens and schools alive, as well as initiated educational farms, vegetable gardens and olive presses, making the village reborn, giving work and new opportunities to both locals and migrants. The major was listed as one of the 50 most influential people in world by Fortune Magazine on 2017.