The Green Festival along the tree path
Last Saturday in Montemagno di Camaiore, the San Marino Montefeltro Green Festival was invited to commemorate the centuries-old holm oak that fell in 2019. The highlights of the event were the planting of 3 seedlings descending from the same holm oak, by children and the unveiling of a wooden sculpture representing an angel, obtained from the stem of the plant itself. A fourth and final map was donated to the festival and will be housed at Podere Lesignano. Present Gabriele Geminiani, creator of the San Marino Green Festival and Stefano Valentini, owner of Podere Lesignano. The life of man and that of trees flow together, with the difference that secular trees are evidence of human events of several generations. And so the holm oak of Montemagno di Camaiore, a pleasant town in the province of Lucca located on the Via Francigena, with its nine centuries of life, has offered shade to many generations of Montemagnesi and to the many travelers passing along this artery. And this celebration expresses the feeling and the bond that the locals have with their friend tree. Among the many also to Giorgio Gaber, who since 1975 took up a home in Montemagno, was able to boast of his shadow and the panorama below, drawing inspiration for his songs. For this reason his daughter was present, Dalia Debora Gaberščik, born from the union of the singer-songwriter with the singer Ombretta Colli. The relationship between man and nature and in particular between man and trees has been a theme dear to the San Marino Green Festival since its inception. Progetto Flora adopts a tree, it represents precisely the desire to rediscover the ancestral man-plant relationship. Only by taking care of a plant can we go back to realizing – as the plant neurobiologist Stefan Mancuso well summarized in a small reasoning expressly edited by the festival – that “A plant, breathes without lungs, sees without eyes and without brain” and that “a plant is different and the same as us “, carrying out all the vital functions of a primate and being able to hear and communicate with other plants and react through the roots, thus being able in a collective way to an insult or a threat. After the visit a few weeks ago to the monumental core in Savignano di Rigo in the municipality of Sogliano for the presentation of the photo contest entitled “The soul of trees”, with the Soglianese Photographic Association and Il Borgo Odorosodi Monteleone, Sunday 27 March a small a branch of persimmon, a direct descendant of the persimmon that survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, will be planted in the splendid setting of Podere Lesignano which for years has housed the only Shinto temple in Europe. This rhythm itinerary undertaken is increasingly becoming an identifying element of the San Marino Green Festival. A clear sign of this is the invitation received by the municipality of Brescia to the official Festival of Peace last November, in which the San Marino festival was able to exhibit an exhibition born from the same Sustainable Archives, the permanent collection of the festival with works on environmental themes, peace and social issues.
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