{"id":7708,"date":"2011-09-01T14:41:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T21:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/?p=7708"},"modified":"2011-09-06T23:33:01","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T06:33:01","slug":"on-september-1st-2011-a-masseria-with-frantoio-ipogeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/2011\/09\/01\/on-september-1st-2011-a-masseria-with-frantoio-ipogeo\/","title":{"rendered":"On September 1st, 2011, A MASSERIA (WITH FRANTOIO IPOGEO)&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7709\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7709\" style=\"width: 366px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/2011\/09\/01\/on-september-1st-2011-a-masseria-with-frantoio-ipogeo\/2011-09-02-p1270224\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7709\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7709 \" title=\"Masseria e Frantoio Ipogeo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/2011-09-02-P1270224-366x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"366\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7709\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Masseria courtyard over a massive ancient subterranean olive mill (frantoio ipogeo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230;is something I have had an intense architectural crush on since first reading about them last year (a fortified farmhouse unique to Puglia, often with a series of connecting vaulted spaces made of local stone on the ground level for animals and farm workers around a central protected courtyard overseen by more comfortable castle-like quarters on an upper level for the noble landowners, some featuring their own chapel and underground mill &#8211; frantoio ipogeo &#8211; for processing olive oil) &#8211; and today I went to visit a dreamy abandoned masseria from the 1600&#8217;s &#8211; with a massive 800 year old frantoio beneath the courtyard, a chapel at the front gate, and extensive local dry stone walls enclosing fruit orchards and gardens &#8211; for sale just north of Lecce where I was entertaining fantasies of retreating with friends who could come and go to a quiet life in the country, living and working and creating and gardening on ancient land &#8211; so I am now realizing that my unexplained deep interest is in part related to their village-like nature, originally created to protect it&#8217;s community of inhabitants from invading warriors, but maybe today offering protection from invasions of other sorts &#8211; like the toxic aspects of contemporary society which could use an oppositional model &#8211; the courtyard becoming the possible focus for a group of people turning in to create their own community, a place that is consciously quieter and slower, being connected to centuries of the past might change your perception of the future, and now I&#8217;m thinking about what my ideal life in one of these ancient ready-made villages might look like today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is something I have had an intense architectural crush on since first reading about them last year (a fortified farmhouse unique to Puglia, often with a series of\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[1757,1774,300,1094,1723,1770,1775,1092,1779,1093],"class_list":["post-7708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italy","tag-agriculture","tag-architecture","tag-farm","tag-farmhouse","tag-food","tag-italy","tag-landscape","tag-masseria","tag-puglia","tag-salento"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7708"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7784,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7708\/revisions\/7784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}