ROCCA DEL DRAGONE

It's situated at the top of Monte Petrino and today there we can see some towers with different shapes. They were built in different periods and probably there was an old building from which our fortress derives. It was built in medieval time and it was useful to take care of the town, far from dangers (for example, people could see until the see from the top and, so, they were able to observe when their ennemies were arriving or leaving their boats to attack the population and destroy the town). Today some tourists come here to see Mondragone from the top and, sometimes, during the month of september we celebrate Lumina in Castro, a festival of drama to remeber the importance of that fortress since the past; that night our fortress remains enlightened and I find it something really wonderful! 
I also remember italian and foreign people who admired the panorama and took photos, first of all in summer time! It was something so nice!

THE PAUL STREET BOYS

This film derives from the same hungarian novel and it talks about a group of boys that want to fight against another group of boys to play. They in an old man's courtyard, but the protagonist, Nemecsek, that's 11 years old, falls ill just when his friends have to fight; so, he decides to get up in spite of his illness to help them; he and his friends win the war, but he dies and so the end is very sad!
The book was written by Ferenc Molnár, while the film's director is Maurizio Zaccaro and it's set in Italy. I think this film is really sad but it's also a good teaching for coward people that run away when they find something difficult!

NUOVO CINEMA PARADISO

This movie was writter and directed in 1988 by Giuseppe Tornatore and it's one of the most beautiful italian movies. It won the Oscar Prize for the Best Foreign Movie. The first version lasts 173 minutes, one the second one, that was international, lasts 123 minutes: it's shorter but very exciting!
It's set in Sicily during the period after the Second World War and it talks about the first italian cinema, so it's both a historical and artistic movie. The special effects are really nice and we can see that, for example, in the scene where the cinema is burning: the flames seem so real! But the most emotionant scene, according to me, is that when the protagonist is leaving his town, his relatives and friends and one of them, the cinema's director tells him that he mustn't come back anymore and he must go on during his life! When I saw it I was just to cry... I could say it was simply exceptional! I think it's one of the biggest italian successes!