Hayao Miyazaki and the Brescia area. The Japanese director could really find more than one inspiration for new films in the province of Brescia. As written in February in the Corriere, in the Sebino there should be a Bristol Jupiter engine which was originally fitted to a Caproni seaplane crashed into Lake Iseo in the first decades of the twentieth century. Yes, the Caproni seaplanes. One of the Japanese director’s great passions as demonstrated by some of his films Porco Rosso and The Wind Rises.
It adds to this an enchanted landscape in the territory of Castiglione delle Stiviere, on the border with Brescia. In fact, not far from Lonato del Garda, there is “Lorenzo’s hill“. A land of 13 hectares which welcomes 20 thousand primary school children every year. The place is animated and looked after by Fausto De Stefanithe second Italian mountaineer to have climbed all mountains above eight thousand metres.
On the land inherited from Lorenzo Saviola, a dear friend of Fausto De Stefani, a world has grown that also recalls the fantastic universe of director Hayao Miyazaki. Furthermore, a wooden statue depicting Totoro is clearly visible. But there’s also Porco Rosso on a seaplane. Then, even if there are no other direct references to the Japanese artist, it seems like being in some Miyazaki film when you walk along the streets between a tent from Mongolia, wooden buildings, the gnome lake and the springs of the sky.
