The Po Valley is the largest Italian plain. It extends approximately 650 km from the

Western Alps to the Adriatic Sea, crossed by the Po river. It's a very fertile and well irrigated

area. The major North Italian settlements are also in that zone, which has become the center

of economic development and industry in Italy.

The plain that I present here is the other plain. My attention is focused on countryside

and the shape of its landscape out of he metropolitan areas that is fundamentally

agricultural.

It's a slow walk in a plain apparently without edges. A trip in a wide and boundless space.

Someone could find it boring, flat like it is. To me this is its appeal, its being so infinite,

far, even if I feel soundly grounded on it.


È un segno dritto
con il lapis
sopra un foglio di carta
Prendete un foglio di carta e un lapis
fate un segno dritto
è la pianura
(Cesare Zavattini, A vrès, p. 144)