In Sant\u2019Eurosia, in the countryside of Civitella del Tronto, an unusual craft preserves the trench of an embodied knowledge that brings every celebration dedicated to the patron saints to its close. Its raw material is gunpowder, its setting is the family, its clock follows that of the saints<\/b>. On the day of the feast, on the slopes of a flowering meadow, a father and his sons spend the hours from dawn to dusk assembling the firing batteries for the evening display. That grassy field, at the edge of the Sanctuary of Holy Mary of the Lights \u2013 Santa Maria dei Lumi – becomes the trench of a knowledge learned from childhood, which, feast after feast, draws eyes filled with wonder towards the sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"