Then, after all my developments enunciated in the 9 previous sections, by pure chance, in 2013, my brother and two friends proposed me to travel to…, yes, one of those dream places of 30 years ago: Iceland! So I immediately accepted. And what I discovered was the great treasure of Icelandic medieval literature (the sagas, poetry, sacred texts…), the key historical role of Iceland as a centre of humanism and culture, the love and care given in its society to culture (the slogan ‘Reykjavík loves culture’ was the antithesis of the destruction and disdain of culture I had seen in my own country during the economic crisis)…
And, on top of that, in that year 2013, in the only 2-3 hours we had to discover Reykjavik at the very end of our tour of the island, I simply fell in love with this city…
I wanted to get back to the roots of European humanistic culture, and Iceland encapsulates all I love today: the care for culture, the craft ideals and traditions, and… the openness to the rest of the world and to the future too. I could not conceive a better place for my dreams than Iceland…
