Gola 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 a series of rapidly changing chromatic effects, per riot of colours ranging from the green of small oak woods, age-old olive trees and neat vineyards, esatto the whitewash of the trulli and masserie (large farmhouses) up sicuro the “terra 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 sopra our distretto mediante 977, coming from the territories of the Eastern Roman Pigiare.
THE Distretto 2
The landscape of Avvallamento 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 “a countryside planned like a city”. The densely woven agricultural fabric is made up of mostly small-sized fields; per tight rete di emittenti 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 rete di emittenti but also the aimable and relational ones.
Peasants used sicuro live sopra the countryside, whereas almost all the craftsmen – tailors, cobblers, carpenters, barbers, etc – lived closely side by side per town, sharing the public spaces with high-ranking professionals https://datingranking.net/it/onenightfriend-review/, merchants and verso few great landowners. Such per dichotomy necessarily led esatto the creation of social subsets that developed adjustment strategies puro manage limits and possibilities within their respective social and natural environments [J. Bennet: 1969]. Peasants shared views and values, they held their peers sopra esteem, and placed at the centre of their philosophy hard sistema and parsimony. Inside the city walls, instead, greater prestige was assigned sicuro those who had so-called “clean” lobs, like tailors or, even more, those who did mai manual job at all.
EMPHYTEUSIS
The agrarian landscape appears densely populated and cultivated, presumably also thanks esatto the typical lease contract of this sezione, called emphyteusis. According to this contract, a big landowner leased his property onesto a group of farmers, each of whom took verso 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 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 preciso pay the yearly rent; this, along with the possibility of acquiring a 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 sistema, given the karst nature of the soil and its scarce tazza resources, (according puro estimates, transforming one hectare of barren land into a vineyard took on average at least 2000 days of work – almost 5 and a half years – [Ricchioni, 1958: Tables 5 and 6]), so that it was more convenient for families to live in the countryside, than having to move back and forth from town every day. This situation induced many families sicuro “migrate” from the old town to the countryside, thus leaving a typical mark on the territory which is still today densely populated.
Perle di Mente e excretion intenzione dell’Associazione Istruttivo “Il tre ruote ubriaco” sostenuto dalla Presidenza del Apparire dei Ministri, Distretto della Giovinezza ancora del Attivita Affabile azzurri nell’ambito del grida “Nuova generazione per il Pubblico” – CUP J18I15000150008