![]() They were entrusted the farm units, first as sharecroppers, so from 1942, to ransom.įor every hundred farms, business centers were set up that would then developed independently and that are currently populated centers, many of which still keep the agricultural vocation: to them were given names of places in the First World War, and today they’re called Borgo Isonzo, Borgo Grappa, Borgo Piave, Borgo Montello, Borgo Faiti, Borgo San Michele, Borgo Montenero, Borgo Pasubio, Borgo Vodice, Borgo Hermada. In the period between October and November, 1932, began the immigration of about 60 thousand farmers from the Veneto, Friuli and Emilia, to populate the land reclaimed. To the Opera Nazionale Combattenti touched mainly the task of dividing the flat lands on unities of various extension, according to soil fertility, an average of 20 ha for each family group, which could have a farmhouse (the farm), fitted with all the civil and agricultural services needed. In addition to the reclamation itself, there were also executed all those activities that would create the conditions and infrastructure necessary to make the Agro habitable. ![]() ![]() The matter was of controlling and drainage waters over a range of about 135 thousand hectares of which approximately 77 thousand proper members of the Agro Pontino.ĭepressions of the land had created numerous pools, full of putrid water and even up to 10 meters deep, very deceptive and dangerous, because carriers of malaria.ĭuring the reclamation works had been used 18 major pumping stations 165 kilometers of canals was built or reactivated 1360 kilometers of roads opened, 3040 houses built, and 4500 wells or artesian groundwater was drilled: a deal valued, at current exchange rates, at around 30 billion euro. Reclamation work was entrusted to two consortia: the “Pontina Reclamation” one, which started operating in 1923, and the “Land Reclamation of Littoria” that began his work three years later. In 1918 the Genio Civile of Rome finished his studies for the complete hydraulic reclamation of the Pontine Marches and the submerged part of the Agro Romano. Until the early Twenties the swamp reigned supreme, crossed by cowherds in the area between Cisterna and Terracina, where the sites were identified by lugubrious names: Pantano dell’ Inferno (Slough of Hell) Pantano della Morte (Slough of Death) Femmina Morta (Female Dead) Caronte (Charon) La Piscina della Morte (The Pool Tomb). In the mammoth work were undertaken 18 major pumping stations, and over three thousand houses were built. Flows of settlers arrived from the Veneto, Friuli and Emilia Romagna. A work by Titan to rid an area of about 134 thousand hectares by the water putrid and stagnant.
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