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La Valle dei Calanchi

The gullies, which give the valley its name, are ridges of white clay, carved deep into the ground by the area’s abundant rainfall activity. An austere and moving panorama in its essentiality, which allows even the untrained eye to grasp the changes the terrain has undergone over the centuries. A changing and powerful spectacle, in constant flux, that leads the thoughts to the transformative nature of everything, where the constant change and inevitable end of everything are uncontrollable.

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