Built as a bedroom suburb in the 1960s, Scampia, north suburbs of Naples, became one of Europe's biggest drug market and center of the organized crime.
In a place left to itself, where state institutions are non-existing, many association deal with the revaluation of his degraded areas with the aim of stimulating the awakening of consciences.
Events like the Scampia Carnival Parade, organized by Gridas, are born to mix the allegorical irony of Carnival, together with daily fights for the "Social Redemption" of these areas and to provide an identity to the progressive urbanization of the peripheral countryside.
