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Abstract: Situated among the hills just around the corner from St. Peter’s basilica, the Valle dell’Inferno (Hell Valley), its brick-kiln and its brick-kiln workers, which immigrate with their families for building the capital city, existed for 60 years. In 1983, all the houses of the area, except for two villas, were destroyed by municipal bulldozers and the inhabitants has been moved in anonymous public housing built above the valley. Probably mistaking the area for a shantytown, it was thus dismembered a community of women and men who had joined – in the same space – daily life and work, both regulated by the brick-kiln. The brave inhabitants of the valley changed not only their way of living but also their mood. Pride and courage leaved the place to sadness and disappointments. Became old, divided one from each other, the only think to do was to tell their life spent in the valley in which, meanwhile, set several homeless.

Keywords: Inferno Valley; Brick-Kilns; Community; Kiln Workers