“Welcome Brando!”: the writing stands out on the streets of the town of Monteleone Rocca Doria , in the province of Sassari, to welcome a new birth that arrives 4 years after the last one .

"It's a great joy," says Mayor Giovannina Fresi, "and we're all enthusiastic."

In the climate of demographic winter that, unfortunately, afflicts most of the Sardinian towns, the arrival of a newborn creates an inevitable excitement.

« We waited for him like a new messiah and it's like celebrating Christmas all over again ».

Monteleone Rocca Doria has 117 inhabitants, no school and, in addition to Brando, who is going to join his little sister, other people are also arriving unexpectedly to live in the small reality.

«A French family is about to move in, but university professors and US citizens have already arrived». Enchanted by a timeless place.

«They fall in love – concludes Giovannina Fresi, also president of the Municipalities of Villanova – with the landscape and the charm it emanates, as if it were an enchanted space».

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