Casa Museo SEC XVII - Rezzoaglio - Ge

Typical Ligurian country house of the seventeenth century but probably being the oldest village of Isolarotonda, the neighboring Rezzoaglio of Genoa, already present in the literature as far back as 1300 when the Aveto river formed you a ring and all around the town seemed, for the 'in fact, rise on an island all round. The house consists of the ground floor, "u cyan teren", which served as a barn. The stable takes light and air only from the front. The ventilation provides only the wooden door equipped with a small door. The door is equipped, as was the custom, the cat flap and bell. The barn housed generally cattle but also horses or sheep. In the stable stocks of oil or wine they were also held necessary. From this part of the ground floor, some stairs lead to the upper floor to be lived. so it is accessed directly, to the kitchen-living room, the true heart of the house and one room well-heated by the wood stove and the underlying presence of the animals. On colder days, the fireplace was lit in place of cast-iron stove. Access to the kitchen-living room is via a convenient trap door with the help of rope and counterweight. To complete the house the bedroom located on the floor above, in a unique genre. The room is isolated from the roof with an attic, a floor, which also served as a granary, to give access to this floor there is a small hatch (in spurtèlu) practiced in the wooden floor. The toilets were, in general, traditionally out. All environments are low because easier to heat. The rural house was, outside it, rarely rinzaffata with mortar, while the interior walls as they could be, and this coarse plaster layer was given a coat of white. The dividing internal walls are generally made from thin boards but sometimes we find them still braided prunings. The floors are made of wooden planks, even gnarled, and rarely find them paved with bricks or thin cement tiles. The furniture is, as usual, kept to a minimum. In the kitchen, the stove, which was also used for cooking, is near the sink. In the bedroom, the bed is a chest for clothes, a sink and a tub for personal hygiene. Highlight the post