It was a beautiful day in Portella della Ginestra. It's a beautiful day today too.
On 1 May, in the Palermo hinterland, between Piana degli Albanesi and San Giuseppe Iato. It was really a beautiful day!
Nearly two thousand peasants and laborers, in poor and desperate Sicily in 1947, had arranged to meet on the lawns, at an altitude of eight hundred meters, to celebrate Labor Day, listen to a union rally and, above all, spend a day in joy with a final lunch outside.
For this there were, yes, the inevitable red flags and a large group of trade union representatives, but also many women, children and the elderly. Family groups arrived on foot, by cart or by mule on the first morning.
- Traduzione: Paolo Molina