Cagnoli is the caretaker of the Rocca Calascio castle that was featured in the 1985 movie, Ladyhawke. — Photos: Reuters
When the sun comes up over the castle of Rocca Calascio, a mountain hamlet high up in the central Italian Apennines, it is like a silent, red thunder.
One such sunrise struck Franco Cagnoli with an almost spiritual calling that led him on a personal mission to revive the medieval village that had been abandoned in 1957.
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