ABSTRACT:

The Aqueduct Park, formerly known as “Old Rome”, is a city park of about 240 hectares located in the seventh district of Rome. In 1986, after years of shanty towns, illegal constructions and risks of property speculation, it was included in the Appia Antica Regional Park thanks to the intervention of some active citizens who joined the Committee for the Protection of the Aqueduct Park. It is an iconic garden of Roman history and culture which the best Italian directors such as Fellini, Pasolini and Sorrentino have always used in their cinematographic works. Sentieri was born from the awareness of the Roman countryside’s visual identity which, from a point of reference, becomes a place of pleasant loss. The physical and material elements of the park, tangible and apparently invasive, pass into an evanescent and psychological state. The research thus becomes a succession of personal directions that, between enigmatic and unexpected encounters, restores an ambiguous but at the same time harmonious bond between nature and the human figure.