I am always been fascinated by crossing borders.

When I was younger, I travelled across Europe by train and I remember the strange feeling I felt when I was waiting for the custom officers coming up for doing passport or ID control.

Last year, I passed two days in the Friuli Venezia Giulia that is the northeastern Italian region near the border with Austria and Slovenia. I took my chance to visit the city of Gorizia and in particular the Transalpina Square: a square separated in two part by the border between Italy and Slovenia.

Until 2004 there was a wall with a wire mesh, not as big and famous as the Berlin one, but there was. The wall was torn down when Slovenia became a part of European Union.

In the summer of 2019 I could take the photo of feet near the plaque that marks the border line, one foot was in Slovenia while the other one was in Italy: a very strange sensation.

But this was possible until some weeks ago

Recently I saw a video on the web that showed that the border was reset cause Coronavirus outbreak. Now there is a wire mesh that subdivides the square as it was before 2004.

It took tens of years after the Second World War to open and free that square in 2004, but a small RNA virus took only some days to reset that fence.