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The Cilento, Vallo di Diano and Alburni National Park is a land of thousands of years of history, a World Heritage cultural landscape where, throughout history, peoples have found a privileged point of contact, contamination and fusion. This is the land where the meeting between the sea and the mountains, Eastern and Western, Northern (or volevi proprio dire Nordic and African cultures take place. This is the Park ‘par excellence’, right in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea, representing its peculiar aspects: biodiversity, environmental interpenetration and the meeting of peoples. The same characteristics are implicit in the etymological meaning of Mediterranean: 'centre of the earth'.
In such a scenario, talking about jewellery and the goldsmith's art does not simply mean dwelling on something precious or valuable, but rather turning our gaze to objects that have the capacity to be witnesses to the history of human civilisations and to tell us something about ourselves through the ancestral desire to adorn ourselves, a tool through which human beings have created an idea of themselves. And so the Monilia project was born, the point of view of the goldsmith's art as a key to interpreting a cultural landscape that is the heritage of humanity. A living and vital landscape in the contemporary world.