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: Benedicta Lee; Category: Uncategorised; 22 April 2020

We must start again, go back to creating business and job opportunities, go back to showing the world that will always be more beautiful every day.

So let's start from where no one has ever started from: Let's start from our roots.

How do I sign up?

Write a first person story about an Italian town that has left its mark in your memory, it has to be a maximum of 2 pages long. Once you are ready, send it to our email adresses: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The articles and stories will be selected by our editorial staff, translated in Italian and published in both languages on our website www.discoverplaces.travel

Need inspiration?

There are 4 categories you can take part in:
1) FUNNY STORY
Example: https://discoverplaces.travel/en/segni-between-an-incomprehensible-language-an-overabundant-nature-and-an-overflowing-history/
2) FOOD (or recipe) OR WINE STORY CONNECTED TO A TOWN
Example: https://discoverplaces.travel/en/history-and-recipe-of-le-virtu-the-traditional-dish-of-teramo-on-may-1st/
3) TRADITIONS
Example: https://discoverplaces.travel/en/stories-of-ponza-and-the-fishermen-silverio-the-patalan/
4) MEMORIES
Example: https://discoverplaces.travel/en/memories-and-scents-of-vinchiaturo-in-the-mornings-of-august/
We will assign a prize to the authors of the most read stories, and their towns will be awarded in a big meeting in Autumn (if COVID allows us!).

So, why #TheFutureInOurRoots?

We have been shut in our homes and some of us have made an inner journey to discover ourselves, our roots.
We are convinced that we will be able to start again from our roots, from the awareness of our artistic value but also from showing and discovering our feelings.
For thousands of years, from all over the world, people have tried to understand Italians, their mind, their spirit, but they have always failed because we are beyond what anyone thinks they understand.
Once I read the book by the mathematician Lazlo Mero "Moral calculations. Game theory, logic and human frailty" and in his introduction he said that everything he wrote was true in all parts of the world except in Italy. He explained that we Italians are not predictable and classifiable according to traditional methods.

It's good for our spirit, making us remember the good times of our childhood or adulthood

It brings us closer to our local communities, letting us develop new connections through our common roots

It helps cmmunities of Italians that have emigrated from Italy, and their descendants to bring back the bond between their town of origin, through stories and experiences translated with our help, in English.

What are you waiting for?

Share your story with us

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