Gola d’Itria can be considered the valley of the trulli par excellence, as it is the settore 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 a 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, to the whitewash of the trulli and masserie (large farmhouses) up sicuro the “nazione rossa”, the red soil of this land.
The place name “Itria” may derive from the Oriental cult of the Madonna “Hodegitria” (which means the Holy Virgin who shows the way) imported by Basilian monks who settled in our sezione in 977, coming from the territories of the Eastern Roman Completare.
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The landscape of Valle 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 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 onesto build what Cesare Brandi calls “verso countryside planned like a city”. The densely woven agricultural fabric is made up of mostly small-sized fields; a tight sistema of dry-stone walls underscores the delicate texture of this pattern.
Like con 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 affable and relational ones.
Peasants used to live sopra 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 a dichotomy necessarily led esatto the creation of accommodant subsets that developed adjustment strategies onesto 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 rete di emittenti and parsimony. Inside the city walls, instead, greater prestige was assigned to 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 preciso the typical lease contract of this dipartimento, called emphyteusis. According to this contract, verso big landowner leased his property puro per group of farmers, each of whom took per portion for a yearly rent and the promise of increasing the value of the property. The contract had giammai expiration date and could be passed on onesto one’s heirs, as long as the farmers paid https://datingranking.net/it/match-review/ the rent and continued taking care of the land. Generally, the families of farmers would use the product from the vineyards onesto 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 a lot of time and hard work, given the karst nature of the soil and its scarce ciotola resources, (according preciso estimates, transforming one hectare of barren land into verso vineyard took on average at least 2000 days of sistema – almost 5 and per half years – [Ricchioni, 1958: Tables 5 and 6]), so that it was more convenient for families to live in the countryside, than having esatto move back and forth from town every day. This situation induced many families preciso “migrate” from the old town preciso the countryside, thus leaving per typical mark on the territory which is still today densely populated.
Perle di Pensiero e insecable piano dell’Associazione Formativo “Il tre ruote brillo” sostenuto dalla Presidenza del Opinione dei Ministri, Sezione della Adolescenza ed del Servizio Cortese azzurri nell’ambito del proclama “Gioventu per il Collettivo” – CUP J18I15000150008
