Villages at that age of the agrarian reform: the Schisina Village in Francavilla di Sicilia

The villages made during the agrarian reform in Sicily representing a local defined territorially and determined by historical events. Identify them, drawing them and analyze their the existing, is founding moment of a study full of surprises and expressive potential. Visiting these realities, reduced to a state of ruin, often never inhabited or used, it is impossible to separate the architectural phenomenon by historical and economic contexts that generated them. The villages Schisina comprises a complex of seven sets of suburbs built in 1950. The whole has been designed to accommodate a family of peasants, who had to be given a small plot of land of land with which to realize up their own business profitable. At that time, the lack of electricity and drinking water discouraged farmers to move there. Since then, only few people know about the ruins of these buildings without life. They are now in a unique mountain ridge overlooking the Ionian Sea in the inland province of Messina. Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni was so impressed by the charm and history that lay behind the villages who decided to shoot a scene in the film L'Avventura. The idea of a project to restoration and reusing for tourism and training (temporary atelier for workshops of artists and structures for receiving for tourists and sports) is a kind of ransom of the place, able to exorcise the demons of the devastation of the territory by humans.