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The rural agency

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The big agrarian societies born after the drainage were located according to the old schemes of the land.
With the more-or-less-homogeneous subdivision into holdings, each of them with an house and a rustic, there was also the construction of operative and executive structures on the model of the classic rustic houses of Veneto.
These structures were named 'Agencies' and, in fact, they used to execute the role belonged in the past to the rustic houses.
Normally the agency used to consists in a big building, for the personnel's house and a workshop for the repairing of the machinery, and a second structure built for the shed in the lower floors and, in the upper floors, for the granary; while the land agent's house and, eventually, the guest room, in order to host the land owner during the frequent visits, were separated from the other buildings.


Finally used to be add to the agency a well, a big cement barnyard and the high-class house's garden, sometimes rich of trees typically of the drainage lands.
In the radical environment and landscape change happened to the countryside around the lagoon in the last decades, that led the desappearance of the majority of the rural buildings, the agency represented the main operative structure and, at the same time, an element of continuity.
Thus today, these minor architectonic monuments, are the mark of the great work of environmental change of the Drainage that made fertile the countryside of the Basso Piave.

 

Text and photos: curtesy of the publishing, from the book 'Escursioni LAGUNA NORD VENEZIA', written by Michele Zanetti, for Itinerari Fuoriporta, Casa Editrice CIERRE Edizioni, Via Ciro Ferrari 5, 37060 - Caselle di Sommacampagna (VR)
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