Murals

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Delia is an open-air art gallery that tells, brushstroke after brushstroke - on walls, bastions, and travertine panels mounted on the façades of houses - the rural history and contemporary identity of the village.

It all began in 1996, when local painter Angelo Fazio transformed a bastion on Via Diaz into a large collective fresco. That work inaugurated a season of public art that today includes more than twenty murals scattered between the historic center and the access roads, now a regular stop for schools and visitors alike.
That painted curtain, developing horizontally and covering the entire bastion, conveys the daily life of the peasant civilization from which our present world has grown. The work brings back to life a world where pastoralism and agriculture were the cornerstones of rural economy, portraying the carefree spirit of childhood, daily life, and labor into old age through a sequence of scenes that, beyond their aesthetic value, serve as a precious anthropological archive.

Murales

In 2022, Pierfrancesco Fazio created the chromatic ribbon along Viale Luigi La Verde (16 × 2 m), illuminated by LED lights, celebrating the joy and lightheartedness of childhood, where windmills symbolize imagination and the desire to live in an unspoiled world, powered only by the sea and the wind.
Totò Montebello, in his triptych Nature in the Heart painted on the walls of the public weigh station in Largo Canale, depicts local products - almonds, olives, and wheat - reinterpreted through the lens of memory, juxtaposing golden ears of grain with futuristic barcodes to recall how tradition and innovation can coexist. With this work, the artist links Piazza Madrice with the Monument to Emigrants and the Arab-Norman Castle, weaving together street art, feudal history, and the flavors of the land.
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Italian unification, in the council chamber, students from the local school, guided by artist Salvatore Salamone, intertwined local history with the national events of the Risorgimento, demonstrating how the first brushstroke on Via A. Diaz continues to inspire new generations.
In Delia, color becomes shared memory and local pride, transforming simple walls into timeless stories.

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