Sources of water in my country
water fountain in my country,
there is no water cooler than my country
fountain rustic love.
(PP Pasolini, from "Poems in Casarsa)
Fabrica was known and appreciated in the past as the country water. One of the probable origin of the name is related to the water. In fact the mills that harnessing the power of falling water in the Middle Ages were called factories, and we just have to Via della Mola a building, built is in the middle of 1800, but on an existing wheel that ran through the strength of the water and grind grain. The wheel comes as a mule, the beast previously had to turn the stone wheel.
The wheel of Bachettoni well known for its ancient name owner, use the force of relapse water ditches Varian, conveyed in a basin Artificial Riforta said from the crowd.
Even Varian Saharan Africa is the corruption of the valley, or valley of the ditches.
Another water mill was operated until the early twentieth century ironworks in places where, to guess from the name, prior to grinding grain, and there was to be built a factory for the creation and processing of iron utensils.
Between 1539 and 1649 the Fabrica, as Carbognano, Caprarola and other countries of the Monti Cimini, belonged to the State of Farnese. In this period the Farnese improved conditions in the country. Among other things, built a pond to Barco, a popular corruption of the Park. The boat and the Cerreto were at the time of the Farnese their private park in the woods to hunt and fish nell'artificiale fishpond.
was probably around that time that the Farnese built a fountain in piazzaccia , presumably in the clearing near the building known as Palace of the Prefects of Vico, perhaps taking advantage of a Roman well, and this is the reason why the old part of town has been called the next centuries and is still called Via della Fontanella.
It was not until 1864 that the municipality will build fountain in Piazza del Comune, Piazza Marconi, sending water uphill from the sources of Sarvan by hydraulic pumps.
sources of Sarvan are nell'omonino forest, has now become a nocchieto, a hundred meters from the village, near the wash fountain nova at the beginning of the road to Carbognano, easily accessible from the center of the country for long because of the steep descent of sources, known as the shore .
remember that at that time, presumably until the early eighteen hundred, Fabrica was surrounded by walls and a deep ditch in the vicinity of the Village separated from the new district to San Rocco, which is accessed via a small bridge .
After the end of World War I then realized the administration of an important work for farmers, the aqueduct the band, carrying the water of ditches Varian soil of the band, tore the forest and undergrowth, cleared and released in the quarter-acre to fabrichesi as a reward for the sacrifices made in the First World War.
You know that water is a precious good for agriculture. In the quarterfinals of the gang, using the system of small banks of wood - were shut out the water in their land, leaving open the switch to irrigate more land - have been able to cultivate the fabrichesi intensely vegetables until the end of World War II, and peaches in the early fifties.
With the cultivation of peaches Fabrica came from poverty and made a reputation that lasts to this day. Unfortunately came to the fore also its limitations, which have lasted to this day: the inability to do things together for the common good. The cultivation of peaches collapsed when the life cycle of plants is then drained and the land were left fallow for a while. Losing contact with the merchants who brought the peaches in the markets of Rome, fruit plants in the north and even in England, there was no ability to revive, perhaps through a cooperative or consortium, the business of previous years, especially since this was as simple as saying that a growing core.
Another important early work was the creation Millenovecento Sarvan of the aqueduct, which, thanks to hydraulic pumps wore for the first time in the water various districts of the country: the Fordeporta fountain, the fountain in Piazza Duomo, the Piaggio, the Garden, the Village. The water was so abundant that in the years of Fascism the powerful family of Cencelli, who abode in Magliano Sabina also, wanted to create a pipeline from the source of Cerreto brought water to Magliano, still existing and working.
Drinking water entered the houses of fabrichesi for the first time in 1954, when it was built an extensive water network that took advantage of the aqueducts of Barco and San Rocco, the latter coming from a source in the territory of the Valley. From the census of 1961 revealed many houses still inhabited by old people, deprived not only of the process, but also of water. of important works upgrading the water supply by that time no if there are more facts.
Up to thirty years ago, before the advent of disserbanti, each district had its country source of pure water. Disserbanti I have poisoned the sources, and work with the tractors have cleared. Who remembers the source of Lullurulù of Fontanasecca, Fontana Mario, the etching and Water Piantacava Sorfata Pantane the destination of panzanelle of kids and adults? And where are the trenches where once you could take dried shrimp?
Today not even the water of sin, good for the treatment of gallstones and high blood pressure, you can drink.
Take a ride through the streets of the country and you will see that in the quarterfinals of the band irrigation systems is almost entirely disappeared, and they built houses and Casaletti with the system of building amnesty. Go to the boat and Cerreto and you will find a new neighborhood on the aquifer.
administrations of recent past, had managed the public affairs to serve the interests of citizens, would certainly target forest of Barco and Cerreto to a large public park. But the only public park in the country are the poor gardens of 300 square meters, which have become too dangerous when on the opposite side there have opened several businesses, thus increasing traffic of the street.
Some would say that society and the economy has changed dramatically, no longer a peasant character. We take note of. But if this civilization tecnologica che ci mette in grado di consumare i beni, poi ci fornisce gli stessi beni alimentari fasulli, inquinati, dannosi alla salute, che ce ne facciamo del progresso? Che vita è la vita da consumatore coatto, che non sa più coltivare un campo, è stato espropriato del bene dell’acqua ed è costretto a bere l’acqua che gli forniscono le multinazionali? Se oggi ci costringono a comprare l’acqua, nel prossimo futuro ci venderanno la presunta aria incontaminata dei ghiacciai.
Ebbene, di fronte a tutto ciò la nostalgia di un universo a misura d’uomo, of a self-sufficient economy, the return values \u200b\u200b eai assets of a peasant can become subversive to the masters of our lives and our future.
In the picture from landscape sources Fabrica del Barco