Sakai – The City of Origins

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“For Luca Galileo, Sakai is the meeting point of Italian and Japanese heritage — a place where beauty, reflection, and cultural dialogue find their natural unity.”

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Between tradition and vision, Sakai stands as the quiet axis of Luca Galileo Ciuffoletti Desiderio’s life and work — a city uniting the depth of Japanese history with the luminous clarity of Italian sensibility. Once known as the Venice of the East, this coastal enclave of Osaka is where Luca lives and creates, while his thought and art move constantly between Japan and Italy — the two shores of his spirit. Sakai is a city of origins and awakening. Its ancient Kofun burial mounds — especially the great Tomb of Emperor Nintoku, near Luca’s atelier — embody the rhythm between life and eternity. Their geometry has profoundly inspired the Integrated Solipsism, whose triadic vision conceives existence as a key that opens awareness to unity. The city is also the birthplace of Sen no Rikyū, master of the Tea Ceremony, whose discipline of silence and simplicity mirrors Luca’s philosophy: awareness as art, and gesture as revelation. Nearby stands Japan’s oldest wooden lighthouse, a symbol of guidance — a quiet light that reveals the path simply by being. For centuries, Sakai has been a threshold between worlds, echoing Venice’s role as a meeting point of East and West. Today, its Fenice Sakai Concert Hall continues this dialogue, resonating with Luca’s own mission through GALIAS: to build bridges between cultures, beauty, and consciousness. In Sakai, Luca finds both origin and return — a place where Italy and Japan, past and present, converge in harmony. Surrounded by sea and silence, he continues to compose, paint, and write, guided by one conviction: that in the stillness of beauty, the Infinite recognizes itself.