“An unfinished castle, made of granite and surrounded by multiform rocks, olive trees and myrtles, which by day looks like an unexplored cave and by night is animated by the frenetic notes of a disco. This is the Ritual of Baia Sardinia, designed and built more than twenty years ago by the Parmesan architect Andrea Francesco Fiore, known for all as ‘Andres del Ritual’. “The name Ritual – begins Fiore – was born from the fact that, as Homer taught us, in these caves around Arzachena the populations came to perform propitiatory rites with animal sacrifices". The thick hair, already worn military clothes: even Fiore, in symbiosis with his artistic creature, shows a sort of formal incompleteness, almost as if to blend in with the surrounding reality. “I could define myself as a pirate artist, constantly searching for the meanings of life, it is important that a person try to understand the reasons why he lives". Regarding the purely architectural aspect of the work, Fiore clarifies that “the external image of a false collapse represents a constant cultural and structural renewal, always respectful of nature and history". Fiore is shy at hearing talk of an architectural work: “This place is a scenography, not an architectural work". The entrance to the Ritual leads to an almost mystical atmosphere, the portal composed of a single historiated beam of horoscope symbols, including that of the aquarium – index of great discoveries – and on one side of the portal, a square spiral to mark the distances between the finite and the infinite; continue through a garden and reach a large natural cavity in the shape of an amphitheater, the real beating heart of the Ritual. “This place – says the architect – was born as a meeting place for artists and in 1968 was a free community, then it took on the function of a disco, but I believe that the mutation of the function does not affect the value of the structure"