With its slow, circular, uninterrupted movement, the donkey covered kilometers after kilometers without leaving its position, under the sun, faithful companion from dawn to dusk.

l’ve left my home in Vitulano 20 years ago, but I continue to consider myself fully Vitulanese and, just like every Samnites, to be proud of my origins.

Even a few decades ago, children usually played among the large piles of clay dispersed in every corner of the hamlet. Everywhere, in its characteristic alleys, the hamlet of Maiano, one of the five districts of Sant’Agnello, revealed the importance of the terracotta manufacturing for the subsistence of its inhabitants.

Powerful, vigorous, lightning fast.

Forty meters high.