Vittorio Giampietro Gianfranco Serra - Teresa Morra
The transformations of Gerbole
Gianfranco Serra was born in Volvera in 1943. He was a farmer and an artisan. He describes the transformations of Volvera, its urban development, from the 1940s He highlights the impact that the Fiat car industry had on the city, the pros and the cons.
His wife, Teressa morra, born in Cherasco in 1952, tells her exprience as a factory worker. She describes the poverty of the Langa region after WWII. She tells about the migrants from Veneto region and from the South of Italy that came to Volvera and contributed to the building of the church of Gerbole in 1979.
The memories of the couple sheds light on the social life of Volvera in the 1970s, the most common leisure activities and forms of social gathering.
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Interview information
Country: IT
Region: Piemonte
City: Volvera
District: TO
Altitude: 251m s.l.m.
Wikipedia: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvera
Gianfranco Serra
Date of birth: 12-22-1943
City: Volvera (To)
Languages: Italiano
Teresa Morra
Date of birth: 01-16-1952
City: Cherasco (Cn)
Languages: Italiano
Document by: Franco Zampicinini
Video by: Luca Percivalle – Davide Porporato con la collaborazione di Anna Aletto
Created: 26-03-2009
