Jean Michel Folon
"I dream of a suitcase, an imaginary suitcase that is actually a window whose bars have been cut to allow one to run away...because to emigrate means to free oneself and to run away to seek a better, happier world...If in addition in the logo I also conveyed some poetry I would be very happy..."
The Paolo Cresci Foundation collects important and varied documents on Italian emigrants.
By browsing our site, you can take a journey through time aboard shiploads of emigrants leaving for faraway places, experience their adventures in their new homelands, and share poignant nostalgia for the place of their birth.
La Garfagnana per Astor Piazzolla nel centenario della nascita
Nella sezione Video la versione in spagnolo
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