In Central Italy the transhumance, the ancient practice of moving livestock from summer to winter pastures, is strictly connected with the network of the “tratturi”. The tratturi are ancient routes crossed by the millenary passage of herds and flocks, which for centuries represented the main network for trade.

The silent rivers of grass, whose praises were sung by the poet Gabriele D’Annunzio, for centuries were the center of an economy based on the barter of primary goods such as wool, milk, lambs and cheese. Along with livestock, also knowledge and traditions travelled through the tratturi. Many of these traditions still survive in regions like Puglia, Abruzzo and Molise.

As lines on a face, these ancient paths designed the somatic traits of the rural civilization. A face wrinkled by time, whose charm is expressed by the eternity of ancient practices which belong to the history of humanity.