This article was originally published on Domus 1042, January 2020 The chronic gap between Northern and Southern Italy has grown as can be seen in the Svimez 2019 report. Calabria is not untouched by the abandonment phenomenon, especially in the countryside. This is the context Orizzontale found at Belmonte (Cosenza) in 2017, conceiving the series of workshops “Crossings” coordinated by the cultural association La Rivoluzione delle Seppie. These opportunities gave life to temporary, heterogeneous and always different communities, while gradually the locals, from the elderly to inmigrants, were engaged in a process that Orizzontale calls “beyond bottom-up”. The goal is to train the collective imaginary on the future of Belmonte, which Le Seppie call “Belmondo”. All this has been consolidated in the collaborative rooms in the former nunnery, today Casa Belmondo, the new community office: the space where firm resistance to the marginalisation of the land has taken hold.