I grecanici dell’Aspromonte: identità culturale, tradizioni e turismo

The analysis of ethnic-linguistic minorities and their delicate balance with the territory in which they insinuate, within which they debate between integration, preservation of one’s cultural identity and participatory forms of living, it has always been a pause for thought of the geographical disciplines, and more generally of the human sciences. This essay is dedicated to the Grecian area (Calabria) – result of the overlapping of the direct descendants with the first settlers of Magna Graecia, which occurred around the 8th century B.C. on the shores of the Ionian sea (Violi 1997) – whose territory has important criticalities, mostly due to the demographic dynamics underway and due to the continuous decline in the quality of citizenship services (education, health, mobility). However, the area in question presents spaces for experimentation with new forms of transformation, that have to privilege a bottom up governance, and enhancement of identity and landscape resources, also from a tourist point of view.