Abandoned Italian chapels

How many historic places left in ignorance and just how much more you need to know modern humanity...However, cognition is not always possible, because a large part of the heritage was lost, abandoned.



In this series of photographs show the chapel, which was left by people after earthquakes. Buona fortuna is a current project of Jorge Rubio and Gianluca Tesauro, which began as a series of photographs taken in the summer of 2013 in Salerno, Italy.



Several villages here were destroyed after the Irpinia earthquake in 1980. Despite the ancient history, these sites have remained completely abandoned since evacuation and have fallen into complete oblivion. These chapels were not only abandoned, but also was recently robbed and the plunder here was something. Have been taken many attempts to restore these villages, but all in vain, the lack of funding and the presence of corruption was fatal to these historic places.

These photographs depict places that many of us have not seen, because they are not in the guide, their photos are not visible on the beautiful brochures, even despite the fact that some of them date back to several centuries ago. Chapel hidden amongst isolated villages or on the mountain tops. Most churches and chapels were built of brick, waiting for reconstruction, but unfortunately they only waited for the robbers who had stolen a precious relic. Given the great importance that these religious symbols have in southern Italy, their destruction leaves behind a significant cultural void that is difficult to recover without these details. And yet, even despite their poor condition, these places reveal themselves in all their former glory.





These photographic trying to convey the great beauty and fragility of a heritage that is inevitably doomed to extinction. The project buona fortuna does not involve any reconstruction or restoration, just asks to save them in the same form as they are today, as a work of art.





The project will culminate in collaboration with local craftsmen, creating a series of new works of art stolen by replacing symbols with new works inspired by southern Italian folklore. The project is called buona fortuna (Italian for "luck"), again reviving these abandoned places as new cultural attractions for locals and tourists.





The Church was abandoned since the earthquake in 1980.

The pictures show how the chapel waiting for his recovery.





Many relics, such casle and paintings were stolen from these ancient places.
Here there is literally a void.
The color of the walls has long been not the same as before, now they have a tinge of tragedy and isolation.







Source: lifeglobe.net/