The hidden life
Underground tunnels, galleries, and other cavities have long served as refuges for threatened or persecuted populations. A fascinating world brought to light by researchers Jérôme and Laurent Triolet, internationally recognised experts in the field.
The two brothers grew up in Touraine, a region rich in underground tunnels into which they fell as if they were Obélix falling into his cauldron of magic potion. Their hobby then turned into a consuming passion from adolescence onwards.
The Triolets have visited many countries, with one constant in their observations: human ingenuity always surpasses the imaginable, especially when the task seems insurmountable.
While the world is full of places of this kind, the most famous region remains Italy’s Basilicata, between Naples and Bari. This is where the unmissable Matera is located—a gigantic emmental cheese of a city, carved out since the Neolithic, successively inhabited by Greeks and Romans, with fascinating architecture. A true film set.
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After l'Information Immobilière, created in 1976, and Immorama, created in 1997, with a print run of 15,000 copies, LVX is SPG's new free publication. Produced in collaboration with SPG One, partner of Christie's International Real Estate, it will be published twice a year,
LVX, the Latin light - in a Roman spelling that affirms our company's unwavering commitment to culture - focuses on art, architecture, watchmaking and gastronomy, but also on styles and technologies: on everything that humanity is capable of when it gives of its best. But it also seeks to provide answers for a public challenged by the evolution of our societies, through encounters with those - philosophers, scientists and artists - who think about the times with elegance.
