{"id":20452,"date":"2021-04-23T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T06:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=191954"},"modified":"2021-04-23T13:37:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T13:37:45","slug":"grazias-home-city-guide-altomonte-italy","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/grazias-home-city-guide-altomonte-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAZIA\u2019s At Home City Guide To Altomonte, Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The past year has seen many people across the world grapple with a very specific type of loss, the sadness of a trip not taken, the mourning of exploring new cultures, the yearning for experiences beyond the anomie of the supermarket. As that strong desire for, and impulse to, wander the world fell prey to the pandemic in a turbulent 2020, we seemed at one point to be surging toward an anticipatory dystopia. Who were we without travel? What do we have to look forward to when there is no international holiday booked for summer?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Over the course of the past 12 months, we\u2019ve been commissioning artists, painters ,and illustrators from different cities all over the world to paint a picture of what they see out their windows \u2013 either real or imaginary. Most artists have been confined to these cities during the global lockdowns, and all have a close connection to the place they have illustrated. Each artist has a \u201cGRAZIA At Home City Guide\u201d perched on their window sill, insider guides to the cities you need to visit and recollections of moments past in these nooks of the world &#8211; how they drank in the palaces, how they wandered through the parks and how they ate and ate and ate. There are recommendations too \u2013 local dishes, phrases, and lessons \u2013 so you can start imagining your own itinerary from the comfort of your own home. Today, we\u2019re headed to Altomonte in Italy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo realize this illustration, I just closed my eyes and let my memories live,\u201d says artist Francesco Caporale. \u201cI wish I could have added many other elements beside those you can see\u2026 but not even ten papers would have been enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Altomonte is a small town in the south of Italy and despite a population of just over 4000 people, the quaint village \u2013 described by Caporale as a \u201cEuro-Mediterranean utopia\u201d \u2013 is alive with culture. Caporale\u2019s vibrant \u201cdoodle art\u201d is reflective of that. The illustrator was raised there before moving to the capital city of Milan at the age of 18.<\/p>\n<p>Although 11 years have passed, Caporale still considers Altomonte a city of family, friends, food, love, and affection. \u201cThe recipe of happiness indeed,\u201d recalls Caporale. \u201cThe bond that unites me to this place, in addition to family and loved ones, is undoubtedly the will to change things and the need to restore life and dignity to a place that was doing well before this pandemic. Small villages will be the solution to the \u2018right\u2019 world that we are chasing. I am firmly convinced of this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The small town sits in the center of the region of Calabria; rugged and steep mountains on one horizon and a sun-soaked, cascading coastline on the other. It is because of this that Altomonte has its name (translated in English as \u201chigh mountain\u201d) while it is also referred to as the \u201cWedding City\u201d thanks to its stunning views and abundant fields of olive groves and native vineyards. If Caporale were to create a fragrance that best embodied the city, it would be simply \u201csqueezed olive oil.\u201d Altomonte is the idyllic destination to experience the local Italian cuisine and to relax \u2013 with a terracotta bowl of local fried crispy peppers and a beverage concocted from licorice liquor in hand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t waste time planning travel, just do it! In my opinion we\u2019ve forgotten the most beautiful aspects of traveling: surprise, curiosity and improvisation,\u201d says Caporale.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Francesco Caporale <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fradesign.it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@fradesign.it<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignfull-width size-full wp-image-191970\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Untitled-design-1-2.png?resize=1024%2C640\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"product-style\">Extra Virgin Olive Oil Altomonte Hills 500ml<\/span> <span class=\"price-style\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tenutabelmonte.it\/en\/prodotti\/extra-virgin-olive-oil-500ml\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SHOP NOW<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignfull-width size-full wp-image-191971\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Untitled-design-5.png?resize=1024%2C640\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"product-style\">Casablanca Terracotta Pot<\/span> <span class=\"price-style\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.templeandwebster.com.au\/Casablanca-Terracotta-Pot-AD2078-AUFT1334.html?refid=GPAAU447-AUFT1334&amp;device=c&amp;ptid=1164147315351&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwvYSEBhDjARIsAJMn0lhvYFqX_ijeEk8tMYyoJnsI9UgzQnkh_1vShBRbtXHU2pb2yHg513EaAhOgEALw_wcB#view-image\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SHOP NOW<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>All products featured on GRAZIA are independently selected by our editors. 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