Jean Michel Folon
"I dream of a suitcase, an imaginary suitcase that is actually a window whose bars have been cut to allow one to run away...because to emigrate means to free oneself and to run away to seek a better, happier world...If in addition in the logo I also conveyed some poetry I would be very happy..."
The Paolo Cresci Foundation collects important and varied documents on Italian emigrants.
By browsing our site, you can take a journey through time aboard shiploads of emigrants leaving for faraway places, experience their adventures in their new homelands, and share poignant nostalgia for the place of their birth.
Garfagnana for Astor Piazzolla on the centenary of his birth
In the section Video the Spanish version
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S. PASQUA 2025
BUONA PASQUA da tutti noi, con un'immagine conservata nel nostro Archivio, una miniera di ricordi, anche delle festività!
Giacomo Puccini: da Lucca al mondo. Pagine di emigrazione
Nel centenario della scomparsa di Giacomo Puccini, la Fondazione Paolo Cresci ricorda come anche Giacomo Puccini abbia vissuto come “un emigrante” e come la sua...
For a Mediterranean Sea of Peace, a Sea of Stories
Nell’ambito del Festival “I Musei del Sorriso”, venerdì 22 novembre ore 10.30, presso l’Antica Armeria di Palazzo Ducale a Lucca si terrà lo spettacolo: Per...
𝗟'𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗮̀ 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶 𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗲. 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗮 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲
Organized 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼 𝗔𝗹𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶 𝗜𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗲, established in the fall of 2005 at the Giovanni Agnelli Foundation in Turin, will be the first conference on the topic...
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