Archive for July, 2006

Restoration of a casa colonica.2

The site
Casa della Cieca is located on a 3000 square meter parcel of land surrounded by fields that are planted with the traditional Marchigiana crops of maize ( granturco ),  sunflowers ( girasoli ), durum wheat ( grano ) and hay ( fieno ) grown in the ocher colored clay. The 550 meter white road looks southeast over [...]

Restoration of a casa colonica.1

The beginning!
Casa della Cieca is a small stone and brick casa colonica at the end of a 550 meter white road north of the village of San Ginesio in the region of Le Marche. The property looks southwest toward the Sibillini Mountains. The earliest section of the building dates from the mid-1800’s with additions in [...]