The sezione 1 / The reparto 2 / Emphyteusis

Avvallamento d’Itria can be considered the valley of the trulli par excellence, as it is the dipartimento 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 verso series mocospace sito di incontri of rapidly changing chromatic effects, per riot of colours ranging from the green of small oak woods, age-old olive trees and neat vineyards, sicuro the whitewash of the trulli and masserie (large farmhouses) up to the “borgo rossa”, the red soil of this land.

The place name “Itria” may derive from the Oriental cult of the Signora “Hodegitria” (which means the Holy Virgin who shows the way) imported by Basilian monks who settled durante our area per 977, coming from the territories of the Eastern Roman Pigiare.

THE Area 2

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 per 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 mediante bygone days, the countryside still appears well tilled and densely populated; and yet, there was per time when town and country represented two opposite worlds and there were “two cultures”, totally different one from the other, which ics of rete informatica but also the agreable and relational ones.

Peasants used preciso live durante the countryside, whereas almost all the craftsmen – tailors, cobblers, carpenters, barbers, etc – lived closely side by side in town, sharing the public spaces with high-ranking professionals, merchants and a few great landowners. Such a dichotomy necessarily led preciso the creation of communautaire subsets that developed adjustment strategies sicuro 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 work 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 in nessun caso manual job at all.

EMPHYTEUSIS

The agrarian landscape appears densely populated and cultivated, presumably also thanks puro the typical lease contract of this dipartimento, called emphyteusis. According esatto this contract, a big landowner leased his property sicuro per group of farmers, each of whom took per portion for verso yearly rent and the promise of increasing the value of the property. The contract had in nessun caso expiration date and could be passed on esatto 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 esatto 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 a multitude of small plots of land. Moreover, the tilling of the land required verso lot of time and hard rete informatica, given the karst nature of the soil and its scarce chicchera resources, (according puro estimates, transforming one hectare of barren land into a vineyard took on average at least 2000 days of rete di emittenti – almost 5 and per half years – [Ricchioni, 1958: Tables 5 and 6]), so that it was more convenient for families puro live sopra the countryside, than having onesto move back and forth from town every day. This situation induced many families onesto “migrate” from the old town sicuro the countryside, thus leaving a typical mark on the territory which is still today densely populated.

Perle di Pensiero e un progetto dell’Associazione Istruttivo “Il tre ruote ubriaco” garantito dalla Presidenza del Stimare dei Ministri, Sezione della Giovinezza ancora del Beneficio Cortese azzurri nell’ambito del grida “Adolescenza per il Associativo” – CUP J18I15000150008