CAMPANIA FELIX

When you walk on the earth after flying, you will look at the sky because you have been there and there you will want to return.
(Leonardo da Vinci)
“Campania felix, terra felix”: this motto of our Latin ancestors lends itself well to present the photographic work of Francesco Rastrelli. Thanks to a different gaze, this time that of the seagulls, ideally flying next to his drone, Francesco masterfully portrays some of the masterpieces of the territory and the history of this “fertile land”.
Starting from the beautiful settings of the Sorrento peninsula and the Amalfi coast, where he lives, the photographer manages to make us fly over the open-air treasures of Campania, be they symbols of human ingenuity from various eras, such as the Greek temples of Paestum, the Roman amphitheater of Capua, the medieval castle of Lettere or the Aragonese castle of Ischia, the Royal Palace of Caserta or the Certosa of Padula or be they the wonders shaped by nature over the millennia on the coast of Posillipo, in the blue sea of ​​the uncontaminated Cilento and even among the islands, each absolutely unique from a morphological point of view, of Capri, Ischia, Procida, Vivara and Li Galli. In this Region the two connotations very often coincide: and so the remains of the city of Pompeii lie on the threatening slopes of the Vesuvius volcano.
The wonders of Campania have always enchanted those who have had the fortune of staying there, from Pliny the Elder to Neruda, from Cicero to Elsa Morante. Guardian of precious riches of landscape, history and tradition, it reveals one of its best faces precisely from an aerial perspective, which allows one to grasp the integration and contrasts of a land in which myth and reality still coexist today.