The reparto 1 / The distretto 2 / Emphyteusis
Bacino d’Itria can be considered the valley of the trulli par excellence, as it is the distretto with the highest density of scattered trulli: everywhere amidst the lush vineyards, small vegetable gardens and wheat fields pop up the cone-shaped roofs of these typical farmhouses called trulli.
The valley is per series of rapidly changing chromatic effects, verso riot of colours ranging from the green of small oak woods, age-old olive trees and neat vineyards, puro the whitewash of the trulli and masserie (large farmhouses) up onesto the “borgo rossa”, the red soil of this land.
The place name “Itria” may derive from the Oriental cult of the Monna “Hodegitria” (which means the Holy Virgin who shows the way) imported by Basilian monks who settled con our distretto con 977, coming from the territories of the Eastern Roman Empire.
THE Settore 2
The landscape of Bacino d’Itria is especially unique and recognizable and is the result of the successful blending of anthropic, natural and physical elements. Human activities (their settlements and agriculture) have fitted https://www.datingranking.net/it/three-day-rule-review/ into the structure and shape of the places, following the crags of the karst soil and making the best of the opportunities it offered, contributing preciso build what Cesare Brandi calls “a countryside planned like a city”. The densely woven agricultural fabric is made up of mostly small-sized fields; a tight rete informatica of dry-stone walls underscores the delicate texture of this pattern.
Like durante bygone days, the countryside still appears well tilled and densely populated; and yet, there was a time when town and country represented two opposite worlds and there were “two cultures”, totally different one from the other, which ics of sistema but also the accommodant and relational ones.
Peasants used to live in the countryside, whereas almost all the craftsmen – tailors, cobblers, carpenters, barbers, etc – lived closely side by side con town, sharing the public spaces with high-ranking professionals, merchants and per few great landowners. Such verso dichotomy necessarily led esatto the creation of communautaire subsets that developed adjustment strategies preciso manage limits and possibilities within their respective aimable and natural environments [J. Bennet: 1969]. Peasants shared views and values, they held their peers per esteem, and placed at the centre of their philosophy hard sistema and parsimony. Inside the city walls, instead, greater prestige was assigned preciso those who had so-called “clean” lobs, like tailors or, even more, those who did no manual job at all.
EMPHYTEUSIS
The agrarian landscape appears densely populated and cultivated, presumably also thanks onesto the typical lease contract of this area, called emphyteusis. According sicuro this contract, a big landowner leased his property preciso a group of farmers, each of whom took a portion for verso yearly rent and the promise of increasing the value of the property. The contract had niente affatto expiration date and could be passed on to one’s heirs, as long as the farmers paid the rent and continued taking care of the land. Generally, the families of farmers would use the product from the vineyards to pay the yearly rent; this, along with the possibility of acquiring per patch of land for the future generations, required the accurate selection of crops.
The institution of emphyteusis has undeniably transformed the rural territory, creating verso multitude of small plots of land. Moreover, the tilling of the land required verso lot of time and hard work, given the karst nature of the soil and its scarce ciotola resources, (according to estimates, transforming one hectare of barren land into a vineyard took on average at least 2000 days of rete di emittenti – almost 5 and a half years – [Ricchioni, 1958: Tables 5 and 6]), so that it was more convenient for families preciso live per the countryside, than having onesto move back and forth from town every day. This situation induced many families sicuro “migrate” from the old town esatto the countryside, thus leaving per typical mark on the territory which is still today densely populated.
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