“Pantano Project” springs from the cultural rediscovering of the homonymous village, and from the will to see acknowledged not only its expressive quality, but its value as a historical document as well: the testimony of a building system, of a historical, economic, social, cultural period now very far from us, and of a humble but skilful material culture too. Facing such a reality, it is necessary to acknowledge the importance of its exploitation and of its possible preservation. These activities are considered as directed to the acknowledgement of the architectural testimonies’ value and to the transmission of that value through the highest degree of preservation.

The village of Pantano, a little division of the municipality of Rometta (Me), represents an important rural architecture heritage. After being abandoned it didn’t suffer any change, so that it kept its original typology and its memories. The village’s centre is the church entitled to the Madonna of the Graces, which dates to a period between 1400 and 1500, and which was the first religious settlement of the municipal territory.  Presently the church is undergoing a scrupulous preservative restoration, whose objective is  to bring it back to its original appearance, so as to give it the leading role it has lost through a process of preservation and general rebirth of the village.