The house was inhabited until the end of the 60s by the Bartolini family, sharecroppers for the Sainati family, who were rich and important industrialists and landowners of the area.
The Bartolini family are still today the historical memory of the house and farm. (foto) When they moved, the farm was rented for a while and then sold, but no one lived in the house. Used as a deposit for tools and as a workshop, it gradually deteriorated and the farm was abandoned until our arrival in 2014.
Bartolini family in Vipiana, the last sharecroppers
Podere Vipiana, mid-twentieth century
HISTORICAL ‘BIBI’ FROM OUR ARRIVAL TO… a work in progress
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