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| images by Parca Lallo, as published on Google Streetview |
The municipality of La Maddalena in Italy includes an entire island with an area of approximately 50 km² and about 11,000 inhabitants (November 2013). The island is located north of the main island of Sardinia.
In the southeast of La Maddalena, near the community of Moneta, located along a public road, there is an art environment called Parco Lallo.
With regard to his site, there are currently (November 2024) developments taking place which will be described below.
The image above gives a certain impression of the location of the site in a bend of the road, but on Google Streetview this can be seen much better
The house of Carmela Ricco, born in 1952 and retired restaurant manager, who together with her daughter Barbara Mula created Parco Lallo, is located near the bend in the road.
It all began when Carmela's son Roberto, who lived only a short time, from 1975 to 1995, as a young man began tending the area along the road near the house by weeding and establishing all kinds of plants and trees.
After Roberto had passed away, the areas along the road were maintained by Carmela and Barbara. this mainly to prevent that these areas would become an open-air dump.
And then, around 2010 the actual development of the art environment began.
As can be seen on the images in this post, nestled between flowers, trees and bushes a world of all kinds of small items such as toys, dolls and vases emerged.
The site also got some larger items, such as Santa Claus and all kinds of fairy tale characters.
Visitors of this characteristic art environment, felt as if ended up in a fairytale world and certainly for children a visit was a special experience, which made them very happy.
However, the local authorities were not very happy with the creation, because it had not come about on private property, but in public space and this probably without official approval.
And so it happened that in the fall of 2024, the municipality announced that the art environment had to disappear.
This was something Carmela and Barbara had not counted on, but after the initial shock had been overcome, an action was set up, also thanks to the support of Gabriele Minna, initiator of the documentation of art environments in Italy.
This action included that residents of Maddalena in particular, but also other interested parties, were invited to take a number of items that are part of the site under their care. In this way, the creations would be preserved and could be reinstalled in the event of a continuation of the art environment at the current location or elsewhere.
To better publicize the action, an account called Parco Lallo, Territorial action babelica, was opened on Facebook on November 4, 2024, edited by Carmela and Gabriele, which quickly gathered more than 700 interested parties.
The process of taking creations under the care of friends of the site has now started and is attracting many interested participants.
It is an approach that, to my knowledge, has not been used before in the field of art environments.
The intention is to create a new art environment, filled with the creations that have been given into storage. If that fails, then because of the wide distribution of the creations of the current site, the memory will remain alive in a very wide circle.
Documentation
* Public group about Parco Lallo on Facebook, with an introductory article by Gabriele Mina
* Article (2024) about Parco Lallo in Italian website Costruttori di Babele
Video
* Video (Facebook, 2.31) by Marta D'Amico with images of a walk on November 7, 2024 ending at Parca Lallo, with shots of creations still present
Carmela Ricco and Barbara Mula
Parco Lallo
Via Amerigo Vespucci, 32
07024 Isola de La Maddalena, dept Olbia-Tempio, region Sardinia, Italy
can be seen from the road
can be seen from the road
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