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Apulia. The Masserie

With their impressive silhouettes and grand architecture, often isolated on a hill\’s top or along its side, or standing in the middle of an endless plain, the masserie tell the many tales of Apulian history. They can be found everywhere, paradigms of a society devoted to agriculture since the dawn of time, lone symbols of hard lives lived in symbiosis with seasonal cycles.The rearranged, enlarged and transformed architecture of present-day masserie mostly dates back to the period between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.


Vito Bianchi,teacher at the Università degli Studi di Bari and at the Istud Business School di Milano, is a specialised archaeologist and a writer. With us he has published Borghi da riscoprire, edited by Raffaele Nigro, Gargano, Bari, la Puglia e Venezia, Bari, la Puglia e l’Islam and Bari, la Puglia e la Francia. He is the author and host of the RAI radio programme “Alle otto della sera”, the protagonist of the “Lezioni di Storia” show played in the theatres of Italy.

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