This one is more a pamphlet than a book: Gamogna is an ancient hermitage (founded back in 1053) that was left abandoned and nearly in ruins in the sixties, when the mountains lost most of its population (have I already told this? :D). Don Antonio Samori', guiding a big group of volounteers, began the restauration/reconstruction in 1991. The book was written when the works were nearly done

I won't go too much into details: this place needs to be seen and lived to understand it (as every place in the world) but it's one of those places encapsulated in my mind and heart from a very young age: I think I was 4 years old the first time I went there. It's a place of peace and silence, where everybody is welcomed.

A group of nuns live there today, but I think it's still open if you want to sleep in during a long hike. Or if you just want to have a nice picnic in the meadow in front of it. Thinking that such a magical place has been there for more than a thousand years fills my heart with determination <3