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Within a few months, resembling extraterrestrial spacecraft, they invaded the landscape and positioned themselves wherever there was a minimum of usable space.
These old second-hand models, spartan and now faded by time, took possession of the earthquake-affected region, offering shelter to people terrified by what was happening.
The setting is the one in which I lived my early twenties: the central Apennines, in the province of Ascoli Piceno. Beneath this constellation of small towns and villages, the earth has always trembled.
On August 24, 2016, it began trembling more, and it did so until the following January, when by then more than 3,500 earthquake events of magnitude greater than 2.5 had been recorded (many more than are recorded on average throughout Italy in a year). In those months, many decided to abandon their homes and take refuge in these old-fashioned spaceships.
In an area tenaciously averse to change, where the only evolution is abandonment and depopulation, the arrival of the caravans marked a visual break, an absolute novelty.
The extraordinariness of the events imbued them with a solemn role that has nothing to do with the carefree approach for which they have always been intended.
As the emergency subsided, a slow and partial retreat took place.
The caravans that remained over the years were gradually influenced by the spirit of the place, which slowly and inexorably integrated them into the landscape.
Almost as if they were a memento of what had happened.

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