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taken from "The GAZZETTINO"
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
The country from eight souls and the many ghosts
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Cordellon Mel in 1960 there were 600 inhabitants, are now less than ten. A history of exemplary service without the people go
Cordellon (Belluno)
View the picture: there is Albino Luciani, bishop of Vittorio Veneto and the future Pope, in the middle of a group of kids and parents smiling, gets up a little can be seen behind the word "W HE Bishop." Corre, but not too much, the year of grace 1960, and in the small village of Cordellon, climbing the Alpine foothills town of Belluno Mel, is a feast for the confirmation. Cordellon numbered five hundred inhabitants at the time ("but probably more, about 600 - told the baker's daughter - recalling the bread was carrying on my father "), today is a country (almost) ghost. If the setting allowed him think about some of the old villages in western black and white. Colors in this winter's day, in fact there are few, with the mist that surrounds the houses and scattered trees that sprout as well as their ghosts. Yet just a sunny day and this place becomes a paradise of nature, the colors had to be back alive as the day they arrived Albino Luciani Pope We're still not here just because we were told that this has become a ghost town, "You you write more and abandonment of the mountain and perhaps not even know what to talk about, come and see what happens when people are forced to leave. "
today that the uprising of Lamon and Sovramonte forced the lords of the plain to consider that mountain sciarci good only for the winter and go to fungi in the summer, now and in the region "sinister" and "right" strives to find a loophole to avoid having to say 'yes, go away in Trentino, a trip to Cordellon (take the road of the Left Piave Belluno Province, arrived at Mel and on the right is a brown sign with the indication) can indeed be instructive .
From "Forest", you wonder what could drive people to leave a place so enchanting, especially as the country is not cut off from the rest of the world: the Provincial is a ten minute drive away, in six half-hour in Belluno and in three quarters of an hour at Treviso. You wonder why those from 500-600 inhabitants in 1960 to count the residents now almost enough for you the fingers of one hand. The response of Scarton Claudio, who was born and today we Cordellon has returned to live there by opening a farm, explains with simplicity and clarity that in Rome, Venice and Belluno sometimes it is hard to understand: without a minimum level of services, people run away. "It is forced to flee - Claudio points out - because, believe me, leave the house you were born and the places where you grew up is very, very difficult." The fact is that in the 50s and 60s, the conditions were to remain in Cordellon. «Quanto meno c'era tutto il necessario - spiega Ernesto Isotton, maestro in pensione che nel borgo insegnò dal '63 al '67 -: la chiesa, la scuola elementare, quei due-tre negozi essenziali. Quando spariscono questi servizi, e la parrocchia fu la prima ad essere soppressa, la comunità perde anche la sua identità». Passeggiando per il borgo incontriamo la chiesa innalzata nel 1948, le scuole elementari costruite nel 1958, la casa nella quale un anno prima era stato installato il primo telefono pubblico; poi la latteria, la merceria, il negozio di alimentari, più in là il cimitero realizzato nel 1956. Sembrano i mattoni di una comunità viva, invece proprio allora comincia la fuga. «A mio avviso - osserva Claudio - il phase-out was caused by so many delays in public administration: a Cordellon electricity arrived in 1961, but the water is first used in 1970 and only the fountains. The discomfort eventually became too difficult to bear. And speaking of delays designates one for all, the most serious: the road to the village was paved when in fact people had already left. " Cordellon The paradox is that with the opening of the plant downstream of Zanussi Mel had also created alternatives on the front of the work: "There had been no road - Claudio explains his arm taking in beautiful baby - many people could remain. Instead, that sort of track that was used the country was not compatible with the duration of the works and the establishment of Mel ended up sucking so many people. "
Slowly the parish was canceled, the elementary school moved to Lentiai, who cares if the shops chiusero.E Cordellon is not a living soul ', someone might comment cynically. In reality the effects of degradation are everyone's problem: the wood moves inexorably ("my mother tells me about when Fernanda: here was a vineyard, here was a field of potatoes," says Claudio), fewer people take care of the land and the abandonment of the slopes - teach geologists - is never done without consequences. A sheet of yellowed newspaper
diocesan record to 32 gli abitanti nel 1980, finchè nel '96 si segnala solo la presenza di Arduino, un vedovo. Titoli di coda sulle immagini del villaggio fantasma? Forse no, malgrado tutto: oggi Cordellon conta 8 residenti, che da questa estate saranno 12 visto che un artigiano bassanese ha deciso di venire ad abitarci. Di questa dozzina, sei saranno bimbi sotto i sei anni. A ben pensarci, questa è una storia di Natale. Avrebbe strappato un sorriso anche a quel vescovo della fotografia, Papa non ancora Papa.
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Tiziano Graziottin
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