A un grupo de amigos con niños y jóvenes nos invitaron a crear un campo de trabajo en los alpes italianos, con el objetivo de reconstruir un antiguo convento. Nuestra sorpresa ha sido que los jóvenes y los niños aceptaron el reto de trabajar como voluntarios en un entorno natural extraordinario, en las labores de pintura, limpieza, retirada de trastos viejos y hasta el montaje de una exposición con las reliquias que nos fuimos encontrando. Todas estas actividades se fueron simultaneando con salidas turísticas, deporte, excursiones y baños en los ríos de alta montaña.
La exposición permitió sacar a la luz diferentes piezas que habían pertenecido a la comunidad de monjas que habitaban en el convento y la parroquia del pueblo Luserna San Giovanni, en la provincia de Pinerolo del Piemonte italiano.
Desde pancartas de recibimiento al nuevo párroco de 1901, el anuncio de la reapertura de la iglesia después del terremoto de 1896 con fotos de la ciudad en aquellos años, los muebles y vestimenta del párroco, hasta una máquina para cardar la lana de los colchones. Quizás lo más sorprendente fue encontrar en la biblioteca de la parroquia libros de 1555, unas décadas después de la difusión de la imprenta por Europa.
This summer has been a little different from others. Spend summertime with children and teenagers in a house on the countryside had been until now a routine. But this summer has been very different with new and interesting activities. My family toghether with a group of friends with children and teenagers were asked to create a working camp in the italian alps with the aim of restore an old convent. Our surprise came when we realized than children and young people assumed the challenge of working as volunteers in a fantastic natural environment in many different tasks from cleaning, painting, throwing pieces of junk, and creating an exhibition with all the old relics that we came through. All those activities have been done simultaneusly with touristic visits to Torino, Prali, mountain walks and taking baths in the river.
The exhibition brought to light several pieces that belonged to the community of sisters that lived on the convent and the parish of Luserna San Giovanni in the province of Pinerolo in the italian Piemonte. We founded big placards announcing the reception of the new parish priest in 1901 or the church opening day after the earthquake of 1896. Those placards were exhibited toghether with pictures of the town on those years, pieces of furniture and chasubles from the parish priest, an old machine to card wool mattress and many other relics. Probably the most surprising foundings in the parish library were books printed in 1555, just a few decades after the printing technics were disseminated in Europe. All those relics were exhibited open to citizen with the purpose of connecting the history of the convent and the parish with part of the history of the town of Luserna. The exhibition was useful as well to give sense to the work done during 15 days by the spanish an italian volunteers, and, in this way, to leave this legacy to citizens