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Went into Cremona yesterday evening to see some of this year's literature/music festival, "Le Corde dell'anima". (The Chords of the soul). It was very busy and saw Roddy Doyle talking about his latest book "The Guts" (very entertaining) -he was accompanied by an excellent young Italian band called "The Street Clerks".
After him was a real character, an Italian writer called Mauro Corona who writes about the mountains/nature and man's disrespect for it. He lives in a valley which witnessed a terrible disaster due to the building of a dam which failed, on the night of October 9th, 1963, wiping out an entire village and more than 100 people in minutes. I remember this date particularly as I was coming into the world just then -born in the early hours of the next day...
A few other shots of Cremona centre show how the festival fits into the old buildings which are a wonderful backdrop to the event. More of these tomorrow...