Maria, 54, is from the Rione Sanità, but she spent her childhood in the Fontanelle area with her cousins. She remembers the church bells ringing joyfully every Sunday, and the bars and pizzerias where people gathered after school. That neighbourhood, once full of life, factories and trades, now survives only in memory.
Even though she still feels at home there, every time she returns to visit her relatives she feels a weight on her heart, a deep sense of melancholy.
The Cemetery reopens, a new life begins
For her, the souls and the people of the Fontanelle ultimately share the same desire: not to feel abandoned. That is why she believes that when the Cemetery reopens, it will feel like breathing again, as if a new life had simply been waiting to begin.
