Dearest Pinmapple Friends!
I wrote this book in 2015, as a means of helping the new influx of stranieri to navigate the myriad peculiarities of the town, medieval quarter, culture, language and geography. I just figured out how to download LBRY and have a copy of it there available for anyone interested!
You can find the Pinmapple link for the town here:
[//]:# (!pinmapple 41.25640 lat 14.59914 long Guardia Sanframondi - The Insider's Guide d3scr)
The book was intended as a cultural bridge between outsiders and locals in the town of Guardia Sanframondi, BN, Italy. It is exciting to have finally found a way to publish it which doesn't involve Amazon - who stole the digital version of it and have been selling it without my permission (and no, after multiple tries to get them to stop this, I have not been able to).
The town of Guardia Sanframondi was mainly known for wine, olive oil and their infamous 7-yearly religious rites, before I participated in a well-known American TV show about house-hunting, in 2012. A 'gold-rush' kind of effect happened as soon as it was on-air: folks began flooding in, buying up old properties in the medieval quarter, and the town started to get rejuvenated on multiple levels.
Since that first transmission, the old town has had a major face-lift, with streets being re-cobbled, benches and flower-boxes and lamps being introduced, gardens being transformed and over 200 properties being bought and renovated. The local economy has been boosted by multiple millions of Euros, as we are a town of just the right size to keep the majority of currency from e.g. house sales, restaurant purchases, local builders'/ plumbers'/ vets'/ doctors'/ etc. incomes - all in circulation. Whilst many others communities around us suffered under the many recent 'crises', Guardia continues to flourish.
I love having been part of the positive effect of cultural integration into a place that had been on something of a downwards spiral in recent decades: Guardia suffered from the same economically-driven migration of talent and energy, as the cities pulled away folks who left to study, work, explore the world...
It is powerful to be part of a movement of renaissance and mutually-beneficial inter-relationship! So many folks coming here have found healing, calmer lives, new prospects for their creativity, and an overall much-improved daily experience. A few children have even been born, through all this cultural exchange! This is a glorious effect of thriving to be part of, when so much in the world on the surface at least appears to be so forboding.
We welcome you to Guardia Sanframondi!
I'll be setting up creative retreats soon.. keep in touch if you are interested also in volunteering and cultural exchange!
