Point 3: the periodical ``La Nostra Valle``
We are in front of the Parochial House adjacent to the Church.
For years, the periodical “La Nostra Valle” has been printed here.
This periodical was created by the parish priest of San Vito sul Cesano, Don Fauno Binotti, born in 1925 who remained parish priest since 1948. He managed to propagate the periodical all over Italy and a bit all over the world, despite coming from this tiny edge of the countryside.
The basic idea was to reach all people living elsewhere, such as America, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Germany and Africa, who wanted to keep in touch with their country of origin San Vito sul Cesano.
Initially only about 200 copies were printed, and then even 4000!
The printing business begins by chance.
The first edition came out in December 1979 with the title “San Vito sul Cesano” and was a simple parish bulletin, but after a few years, and precisely in February 1983, it will become “La Nostra Valle”.
The parish bulletin, in fact, originally reported only news mainly concerning San Vito sul Cesano. Later it was enriched with information and facts relating to the next parishes and towns thanks to the collaboration with other parish priests such as Don Lino and Don Sesto from Pergola, Don Araldo from Monterolo, Don Ferdinando and Don Ugo from Frontone, and for this reason it was necessary to change its name.
Each house had at least one periodical with its characteristic yellow cover, and since it didn’t just talk about celebrations or liturgies, many young people of that time began to be interested and keep informed about the facts of our territory thanks to La Nostra Valle”.
Many events, facts and happenings were reported, always with clarity, accuracy, criticality and absolute transparency.
Even when the topics discussed were thorny, such as the closure of the Pergola hospital, the Golden Bronzes, the San Cristoforo dump, the critical situation of the road network in particular of the SS424, the problems in the districs and many other political, social and administrative events, the tone was always calm, polite and never polemical. There was a lot of correctness no longer found in certain modern publications, even of a local nature.
It was a tool of cohesion and information at the same time, and it was certainly a wealth for all of us, because it made the inhabitants of the valley discover, or rediscover, all the beauties of our territory, history and traditions, telling everything about us. With a sense of familiarity, we passed from hand to hand what we simply called “Il Giornalino”.
The latest issue of the periodical was printed in December 2004, after 22 years of activity, at the end of a sometimes tiring journey, but rewarded by a constant growth.
The latest issues, in fact, were even printed on glossy and color paper, with remarkable typographical elegance, but times changed and there was no longer room for La Nostra Valle, as it was born.
Point 4: the old crafts
In a not too distant time, San Vito sul Cesano was inhabited by many families, and the silence of its orderly alleys was broken only by the laughs of the children playing, and by the voices of the busy women, who came from the open windows adorned with vases of flowers.
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