“Il Popolo giusto vuole la neve” (The Right People want snow)
Vicolo Venezia
Reggio Emilia, May 2024
“Once in the city centre, we head straight for a side street of Via Roma, the narrow Vicolo Venezia. At number 13, just before the entrance to the park, you will notice a faded writing on the wall: ‘The Right People want snow’. It is thought to have been made around the 1940s and a couple of meanings are attributed to it. This area of the city is where once lived the so-called Popol Giost, that is, the poor part of the population that made a living with gimmicks and jobs, including shoveling snow: one of the two meanings of the writing is precisely related to the fact that the Right People waited for the snow to be able to work a little and, therefore, earn some money. The other meaning of the writing is more political: it is thought to be a sort of coded message where snow means the end of the fascist regime.” (The Murales of Vicolo Venezia, Secret World)
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