PAIARI

 

“Paiari “, straw piles. What is? From the first moment the single name gives one exhausting answer: straw pile, structure for the stacking of the straw. But it is not therefore, to say what are it is the much most complex one: sure they make integrating part of our civilization peasant and are one pleasant constant of the landscape salentino.

 

 

Constructed to dry with pietrame crude they are usually introduced to circular plant and very rarely to quadrangular plant: typical structural system to trullo but with roof you cut.

Certuni smallest the other voluminosi ones, are camouflaged with emerging cliffs of the greenhouses and they get confused with the walls of town-walls of the pertinenze pulls to you on with the same technique. Some are many minuteren to supply shelter to a single person whom it does not expect of starci in feet: other that I placed you of straw. Others stand out imposing and monumental towards the blue, when blue it is, otherwise seem contrapporsi fiercely to the nuvolaglia, threatening or less that it is. They fight like much Don Chisciotte against their flour mills to wind, exiting some but victorious: null han been able against of they the inclemencies, if struck, they have been struck from the abandonment, the incuria and the ignorance of the men.

 

 

Of those widest ones it hits the spaciousness of the inner ones where fortune teller easy that the dominant presence has not been that one of the straw but….