Casa di Marlureta

The house of "Marlurita", or Maria Loreta Pacella class of 1890, remained as she left it when she died in 1978: without running water, without toilets, with a low-voltage electric light bulb. Marlurita after the departure of the two brothers to America, the death of her parents and her elder sister, "lived alone and from dawn to dusk she went out to carry on her head the stone blocks of the quarries on the slopes of the Maiella. cantonal to the houses, the ones that the stonemasons sassed, they were brought down using female labor because it cost nothing "(Vincenzo Battista). It all stopped in 1978 and as a journey back in time suddenly you find yourself in an era of poverty and survival, one of the many stories of hunger and poverty in rural Italy of the last century, not surprisingly on the small door reads a passage by Ignazio Silone "under the roof, like the earth, the peasants are at the last"