Borgo Cantoni

Borgo Cantoni is an aggregated rural settlement, its several building bodies clustered into an irregular whole that spills across multiple land-registry plots. The structures are typically two storeys high, their masonry walls either left exposed or rendered, and the pitched roofs are covered with traditional tiles or the occasional Marseilles pattern. Inside, the floors and roof frames are usually wooden. Some of the buildings have external stone staircases, a few of which lead up to loggias, a local vernacular touch. On the ground floor, you would have found stables and storerooms; the living quarters were on the first floor. It is a straightforward, functional arrangement, the kind of practical farmstead that once dotted the Italian countryside, not a villa, not a fortress, but a working place, shaped by the land and the seasons. The stone and timber are the only witnesses left.

Description via source. Coordinates and heritage data from the Atika atlas.