The wonders of the Abruzzo National Park, Lazio and Molise through the eyes of Giancarlo Mancori

Catalog published on the occasion of the homonymous exhibition at the Tuscolano Museum – Aldobrandini Stables, Frascati (RM), 31 January – 29 February 2016.

“I don't think there are doubts about the fact that, Among all Italian national parks (and also European) that of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise is the most important and the most beautiful. This mountain paradise placed a short distance from Rome and Naples concentrates all the parameters that confirm its absolute exceptionality. Peaks that exceed i 2000 meters, with flowery prairies and precipitated cliffs; beech forests that are mixed with cerri more, Frassini, Birch and monumental maples on an undergrowth of rates, agrifogli, Boudies and the Promoli; And then Lakes of the bottom of the valley and lakes at altitude, Sumgers and Fiumicelli, streams and waterfalls, rocky walls on which black pines and shrubs of mugs and intact landscapes huge from small medieval villages well preserved and welcoming.
All enriched by a fauna that is not reflected, for its rarity and for its unusual visibility, in other protected places.
They are the exclusive Marsican bears, The powerful Apennine wolves, The endemic and beautiful Camosci d’Abruzzo… And then deer, Caprioli and Irsuti wild boars, FOLLOWS FOLLOWS AND RESEES, witnesses, and real eagles… And then peaks and coturnic, In a variety of animal and vegetable species of absolute uniqueness.
To fully enhance this Apennine Eden, Photography plays a particular role. But let's be clear: Not a photograph of way that points on particular scenarios or on unusual situations, the, worse, on landscapes from box of chocolates or illustrated postcard.
To make justice fully to the wonders of the Abruzzo Park, Presentation of the book in Savona, It is necessary - in addition to the classic qualities that every respectable photographer knows, and to increasingly advanced techniques - one more dowry: that of love for nature, distilled in years of assiduous and moved attendance, capable of exciting from the flight of a culbian as from the vision of a wolf in the bush.
This is what Giancarlo Mancori knows how to give us, combining a unique and unquestionable appraisal with an intimate transport to the subjects taken up against the background of the most beautiful park in Europe.
The whole (And this does not hurt) combined with an innate artistic sense, capable of grasping even in the most usual and banal subjects, The divine breath of beauty ".

[Fulco Prato]