The steeple of Old Morino seems the pastor of which tells us Ignazio Silone's novel Fontamara, a shepherd to guard a flock of sheep fled in a cold morning in January 1915. Morino Vecchio is a place of memory, tells the people who lived and transformed, belongs to the history of that community that has had to move further downstream to continue living,it.
Case, churches, streets and squares destroyed in seconds. What remains, with its crumbling walls and piles of rubble, is a symbolic place: the passage of time rapidly, Force of Nature, the instability of what man builds.