Who are the hermits in Valfontanabuona today?

They are people who choose to live in an isolated place to satisfy their need for communion with themselves and with nature. They feel the need to live as if they were part of this planet and living nature.

They have been present in the valley for years; they are secular and replace those who in the past were animated by Christian spirituality. This reality/community is not conspicuous precisely because of the sense of sobriety that animates it, and therefore it doesn't even have a name to identify it. They are very numerous, more than one might think. (...)