L'Adda. Risorsa da tutelare e valorizzare

In a slender case containing 12 vintage photographs in post card size selected from the Alinari collections, tribute is paid to the Adda River, to its famous course, a historical boundary line between Milan and Venice, exceptional stage for Manzoni's personages, ideal setting for Leonardo da Vinci's paintings. The pictures in the collection reveal the artistic and natural beauties, the productive activities of the past, the historical navigation systems, the first railroad crossings, the old inhabited centers along the three hundred kilometers of its course, from the source to its confluence with the Po. This complex ecosystem achieved an admirable equilibrium between resources of nature and productive activities and it has in large part been preserved. Tracing its history through photography helps us understand the importance of the Adda in the past, but above all the need to safeguard and protect it in the future.