During the 1960s the Belice Valley (western Sicily) was involved in an impressive (for the period and the context) experiment of popular participation and civil disobedience regarding local development, inspired by a famous social worker, Danilo Dolci.
These initiatives, interrupted in 1968 by a terrible earthquake which devastated the Belice Valley, attracted and inspired many people from the rest of Italy and Europe.
With our Project "Le Terre che Tremarono" (The Lands that Trembled) we are attempting to collect the memories of that period, to explain that experience to the new generations (through a sort of Popular Museum of Memory) and to work with the local population on a project of responsible tourism.
