Smallest Italian Village Celebrates Its First Birth in Eight Years

Nothing is really more magical than witnessing new life emerge. It is made even more magical when you don’t see it happening all the time.

Last Sunday, residents of Morterone, the smallest village in Italy where only 28 people live, welcomed their 29th community member, newborn baby Denis. He is the first baby born in the town in eight years.

“It truly is a celebration for the whole community,” Antonella Invernizzi, the mayor of Morterone, told Corriere della Sera.

Denis’s parents, Matteo and Sara, followed the Italian tradition of announcing the birth by placing a ribbon – blue for a boy and pink for a girl – on the door of their home. It is the first time such a ribbon has been seen in the village since 2012, when a baby girl was born.

Denis was born in Alessandro Manzoni hospital in Lecco, weighing 2.6kg.

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“Now we have gone back up to 29,” Invernizzi said. “There are no other pregnancies in sight, at least that I know of … but certainly a newborn is always a joy for all of us.”

More details about the story over at The Guardian.

(Image Credit: Commune di Morterone/ Trattoria DEI Cacciatori/ Facebook/ The Guardian)