Fiumefreddo Bruzio

In 1975 the town of Fiumefreddo Bruzio in Calabria welcomed enthusiastically Salvatore Fiume's proposal to revitalise the historical centre with some works free of charge. Starting that year Fiume painted some external and internal walls of the tumbledown eighteenth century castle. In 1977 he frescoed the vault of the chapel of San Rocco and in the ensuing years he added a bronze sculpture in each of the two panoramic squares in Fiumefreddo that overlook the sea. In 1996 he repainted the internal walls of the castle after the original frescoes were destroyed by bad weather. These images document the first version (1975) and much of the second (1996), carried out by Fiume a year before he died.

		The castle Fiume photographed with a group of people from Fiumefreddo
		The castle Fiume at work
		The castle 1975 first version internal walls
		The castle 1975 first version internal walls
		The castle 1975 first version external walls
		The castle 1975 first version external walls
		The castle 1996 second version upper section of the south wall
		The castle 1996 second version lower section of the south wall
		The castle 1996 second version west wall (detail)
		The castle 1996 second version upper section of the north wall
		Chapel of San Rocco South entrance
		Text by Salvatore Fiume
		Fiume photographed while painting the Chapel of San Rocco
		The dome of the Chapel of San Rocco in Fiumefreddo
		The surfing girl one of the two sculptures donated by Salvatore Fiume to the town of Fiumefreddo