This organization proposes a new narrative on the mafia, thus promoting civil and social rights. What has brought us here is the Goethe-Institut’s “Freiraum” venture, which has ‘nullified’ the distance between Nicosia and Rome by joining the ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation with the daSud organization. It is a creativity festival, which is being hosted at the particular school because it has become an exemplary communal academy that is against the mafia: a social and cultural workspace in a secondary school. The starting point is at the Enzo Ferrari Institute in Cinecitta, where the first day of works for the Restart Festival 2018 has just been completed. Peter’s Square, and who eat in the trattorias and stroll around Trastevere, do not see or even suspect exists, and, actually, are not eager to get to know. This is the side of Rome that tourists, who throw coins into the Trevi Fountain and flock to the Colosseum, the Piazza di Spagna or St. This is what Marco Carta, the journalist of the newspaper “Il Messaggero”, who is guiding us through the “dark” side of the Eternal City, believes. For many, it is the ultimate symbol of modern Rome, as well as of Italy: an imposing and powerful vision that has remained incomplete and thus embodies all its weaknesses, contradictions and frustrations. It is the unfinished roof of the new swimming centre designed by Santiago Calatrava. From a distance, one might mistake it for huge circus tent, and, if using one’s imagination, it can even be seen as reminiscent of a large dinosaur’s skeleton. On the eastern outskirts of the Italian capital, close by the newest university in the city, Tor Vergata, a mountain like construction of white steel, emerges from the landscape. A walk through the Eternal City’s dark side: the mafia’s den, the drug piazzas, and the streets of faded dreams.
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