In the heart of Val Brembana, the small hamlet of Tagliata in Costa Serina turned for one evening into a real reading monument. With just two fixed inhabitants during the year, this tiny village became the protagonist of an original and poetic initiative: 3,000 books lying along the main street, 45 meters long.
The project, entitled “A road of books”, was conceived by the journalist Giovanni Cortinovis, who also created the Summer Library of Tagliata, inaugurated in 2024 and already very popular with vacationers and reading lovers. The volumes exposed on the ground come from this collection and have been arranged in order to transform the road into a symbolic path, where each step becomes a journey through pages, stories and knowledge.
As the organizers explain, the idea was born from a simple but powerful reflection: those who read, change, discover. In this case, the metaphor of the journey was made concrete, although for one evening the road was not physically viable. The message, however, is clear: knowledge is built by walking between words.
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Books to take home and in the heart
At the end of the event, the many visitors who rushed were able to choose two books to take away, as a gift and memory of an unusual and engaging experience. For many it was a way to rediscover the value of slow time, silence and sharing. The spouses Luisa and Lorenzo Cortinovis, the only residents of the village, said they were happy and moved for the initiative that brought life and culture in their corner of the world.
Thanks to this installation and the summer library, cut is becoming a destination for bibliophiles and curious, also fueled by the birth of the Facebook group “The fabulous world of cut”. A virtuous example of how even a tiny place can generate large cultural projects, capable of uniting past, present and future between the lines of a book.
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