Description

here was a world before Facebook. And there was a world without Internet. Going further down, there was a world without television.

Are you there?

Ok. How was the Italian landscape by then?
What made the imaginery in our minds?

Easy answer. La Settimana Enigmistica.

So important, it even has its own entry on the English Wikipedia:

La Settimana Enigmistica was created by a Sardinian nobleman, Giorgio Sisini, count of Sant'Andrea and the son of the founder of the Rotary Club of Sardinia. Sisini died in 1972 and production of the magazine was taken up first by Raoul De Giusti and then by Francesco Baggi Sisini. The first edition of the magazine was published on 23 January 1932 and featured the Mexican actress Lupe Vélez on the front cover. The magazine has featured puzzles contributed by the most famous puzzle-setters, including its founder, who created puzzles for readers up until the last few days of his life. One of the footers on the front page of the magazine states è il settimanale che vanta innumerevoli tentativi di imitazione ("it is the weekly magazine that boasts countless attempts at imitation"). Indeed, numerous other publications have followed in the wake of its popularity. One characteristic that makes La Settimana Enigmistica unique is that it does not accept advertising and, formerly at least, rarely uses it to sell the magazine. In November 2008, it reached the milestone of 4,000 editions and, to celebrate this fact, the preceding five issues carried a competition dedicated to Italy.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Settimana_Enigmistica

Since 1932, every week, thousand and thousand images inventing a fictional (but incredibly fascinating) conceptual landscape.