Here Tierra del Fuego, the far end of the world inhabited before the white solitude of Antarctica. A strange name, right?
It seems that this name is directly across the strait that Magellan will bear his name he saw columns of smoke coming from the camps of the Yamana Indians. He decided to call it Land of Smoke, but some time after a English king thought that where there's smoke, do not miss the fire and then renamed the Tierra del Fuego. Others argue that the region took its name from the red color of mountains.
What seems certain that these parts are called things differently from what they really are. Tierra del Fuego to indicate a land swept by cold winds and icy Antarctica, Pacific Ocean to indicate a sea that is almost never peaceful, Cape Horn, the legendary stretch of sea storms of a thousand and a thousand shipwrecks which takes its name from a small quiet and motionless sea town of Dutch because Dutch was the captain of the ship that gave him the name.
I wonder if this matter of names could also apply to Arezzo. I am not referring of course to its topography, but for example to the world of policy, however, I am afraid not much different from that of many other cities.
How many words are used inappropriately, how many words have now become empty shells hours containers of meaning exactly the opposite of what you mean. There are words that are sort of passe-partout, good for all seasons and all political tendencies, words that seem to justify themselves, and which in any case there must always be:
words like development, such as law such as democracy, on which everyone agrees, but then that, to prevent them from playing empty, you should attack some other concept. To say, there is growth and development: Arezzo, and I think this has also had to learn from point of view of the big issues and structural planning.
The capital, so to speak, Tierra del Fuego is Ushuaia. The southernmost city in the world. Do not believe it but, again, I met a group of Arezzo on vacation. And it is always exciting, find a piece of home in a land so far away.
now it is fashionable to go to Ushuaia to be photographed under the sign that says "fin del mundo" and return to the cruise ship or in four-star hotels. Now there is no package tour in Latin America that does not include a trip to Ushuaia. Too bad that prevail here this mania the "hit and run."
Yet it is a city that has great appeal. The surroundings are ideal for exploring off the beaten paths and parks along the Andean cordillera, or take a boat ride and enjoy everywhere sea lions, cormorants, elephant seals and penguins in freedom. And then there is to see the penal colony.
What has been one of the most famous prisons and harsh the world is now a maritime museum. In small-cell arms of the terrible ice cream you can find the bloody stories of some famous convicts for their criminal acts, including some Italians. In a jail and also political prisoners stayed relegated at the end of the world by illiberal governments and dictatorships that have, in alternating phases, marked Argentina.
But the thing that intrigues most and that is noticeable within the time capsule. It 's a strange pyramid placed in the square in front of the port and in front of the Oficina Antarctica, the place where you buy your ticket go with the icebreaker in Antarctica.
This pyramid concrete contains six laser disks and video copies of television broadcasts in 1992 and will not be open in 2492. All this, I presume, for the inhabitants of the future because we know how we lived five hundred years before.
Who knows, if the planet will still always lived and will resist the melting of ice what will the future generations. Surely you will do a lot of laughs.
and laziness of this afternoon at the end of the world "really takes me away with my fantasies. Once again, the imagination takes me back home to fifteen miles away. And I think of a time capsule to
Arezzo: who knows, maybe you could include the news of our local stations, the microfilm of the news pages of our newspapers. Collect all in short fights, controversy, proposals, statements and denials of our day, in the year of grace 2010.
And do not say to keep everything sealed for half a millennium. I think that it would take much less, perhaps only a century. It would be really fun to know today what we think of our posterity. What all of this that we now seem so important, decisive, indispensable.
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