Saturday, April 18, 2009

! Tex Capacity Exceeded, Sorry

very old custom has

The tradition of transhumance dating back to the Samnites. The sheep-tracks of ancient origin, they were real highways along which, until a few decades ago they moved their herds during the transhumance. There were 14 major cattle-tracks whose width since the fifteenth century was set to 111 m and 60 cm. Connecting the mountains of Abruzzi and Puglia, were up to 250 km long with a total length of 1360 km and were paths twice a year: in May to move up from Puglia and in October, falling back from the mountains before the snow covering pastures. THE BEGINNING was marked by a boulder visible in the grass: the title. On the other trails in the grafting of tratturelli, and lower arms wide, including ones from Matese. Along the route, approximately every 25 km, were the farms with the pens that were used as "Autogrill", made of masonry, divided into many compartments, next to which were mungitoi, dry stone fences and shelters for shepherds. For use of the pastures of the Royal Court or church property, universities and private grazing land was paid a fee proportional to the number of sheep. Free transit and instead was grazing on the tracks, which sit on public land. At Foggia, there was the Royal Customs of Mena Sheep, where many paths converge. Prior to the imposition of customs dating from the fifteenth century, the system was not organized in a capillary and the movements of flocks were done essentially on Roman roads. The Customs was in use until the early nineteenth century. Today transhumance to the plains of Puglia has been abandoned since almost everyone has the opportunity to make use of local pastures also because it has drastically reduced the number of flocks. The move follows a crude system of vertical transhumance reverse: because the vertical between the mountains and the plains below, because contrary to what the reverse is usually the case in other parts of Italy, the shepherds own or rent housing on the plain, relevant to plots of land which used to be able to spend the winter in less adverse conditions.

That I told you there seems a a little story?
Well, I do not know if you care that much.
certainly do not ask you to become pastors, but what I suggest, is to find the old life, and leave that for 10 minutes today. I have to tell the truth, just pop in those days, I would very, very happy.

0 comments:

Post a Comment