A volunteer part of the UN task force "Blue Helmets for Culture" looks at a Madona with child painting in the seriously damaged church of San Francesco in the village of Visso on March 27, 2017, central Italy. The central villages of Visso and Ussita where hit by a strong earthquake on October 27, 2017 forcing the population to flee their homes and leaving empty villages now strictly protected by police road blocks. This UN boby tasked with the protections of the world's cultural patrimony (Unesco) and working with a mixed composition of specialized personnel including approximately 30 civilian experts (historians, scholars, restorers) and 30 officers from Italy's art crime squad, the Carabinieri per la Tutela del Patrimonio Culturale, is now working to recover Art from the damaged and abandoned villages of central Italy frequently hit by quakes in the last year. FILIPPO MONTEFORTE / AFP
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