Casale Salvatore

This is a farmstead of straightforward honesty, two rectangular stone blocks joined in an irregular L-shape. The masonry is laid in regular courses, a workmanlike job, and the roofs are pitched, covered with a mix of traditional coppi and the later, flatter Marseilles tiles. The southwest block, the living quarters, makes a virtue of practicality with an external stone staircase leading to the upper floor. Its neighbour, a barn and stable, keeps its timber stairway inside. The wooden ceilings are exposed, and the whole place speaks of a rural architecture that had no time for ornament, only for sheltering people, hay and livestock under one continuous, weathertight roof. It feels solid, functional, and entirely unselfconscious.

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