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« Non è possibile vedere campi più belli; non vi ha una gola di terreno la quale non sia lavorata alla perfezione, preparata alla seminazione. Il formento vi cresce rigoglioso, e sembra rinvenire in questi terreni tutte le condizioni che si richieggono a farlo prosperare. Nel secondo anno seminano fave per i cavalli, imperocché qui non cresce avena. Seminano pure lupini, i quali ora sono già verdi, e portano i loro frutti nel mese di marzo. Il lino pure è già seminato; nella terra tutto l'inverno, ed il freddo, il gelo lo rendono più tenace. »
[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Viaggio in Italia]
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Torre Tarugi in the Val d'Orcia, Tuscany
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A tower of 1200's and a rural house of 1700's, both restored with every comforts, between Val d'Orcia and Crete Senesi. The “Casella Tarugi was built by the Tarugi family at the end of 1700 and was inhabited during the following years by peasant families of the Val d'Orcia.
We don’t know much about the history of this ancient building which used to be a tower for the defence of the border. The architecture seems medieval. It was made into a farm house and used, in more recent times, as temporary lodging for sharecropping families who’d been turned out of their own house.
The landowning families institutionalized agricultural stability in the form of the mezzadria (sharecropping) system. Mezzadria can be translated as share-cropping and it implies 'sharing half' (coming from meta = half). The mezzadria developed in central Italy in particular, after the disappearance of feudal serfdom.
'Mezzadria refers to an agricultural system of labor that was not unique to Tuscany but was most firmly entrenched there and among the most defining aspects of Tuscan life. Iris Origo, in War in Val d'Orcia, said of mezzadria that "like many traditional systems handed down from father to son, the mezzadria compact is both very complicated and very elastic ... It is not quite that of landlord and tenant, nor certainly that of employer and employee-it is more intimate than the former, more friendly than the latter. It is a partnership."[2]
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Piazza Pio II: Palazzo Comunale e Palazzo Vescovile, Pienza
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Pienza, Palazzo Vescovile |
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Il pozzo di Montepulciano, situato nel centro storico (Piazza Grande)
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Palazzo Nobili-Tarugi, Montepulciano |
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Palazzo Nobili-Tarugi : palazzo nobiliare di Montepulciano |
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Villa La Foce |
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Villa La Foce, entrance gate with a
bunch of cypress trees
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Trees near San Quirico d'Orcia
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Villa La Foce | The Val di Chiana between La Foce and Radicofani | Share-cropping in Tuscany
Villa La Foce and the Val d'Orcia | Look at some pictures of the early 20th century | www.lafoce.com
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[1] Foto di Rein Ergo.
[2] Barrie Kerper, Tuscany and Umbria: The Collected Traveler, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011
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Case vacanza in Toscana | Podere Santa Pia
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Cypress trees between San Quirico d'Orcia and Montalcino |
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Colline sotto Podere Santa Pia |
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