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Pietraperciata enhances the estate’s rural heritage with a PNRR project dedicated to restoring the museum, dry-stone walls, saie and internal roads.
Dry stone walls
Dry stone walls and Saie
+39 329 8343562
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Funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU
National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP)
Mission 1 – Component 3 – Investment 2.2
Protection and enhancement of rural architecture and landscape
Dry-stone walls
Dry-stone walls are a key feature of Sicily’s traditional agricultural landscape.
Thanks to these structures dating back to the early 1900s, it was possible to create, on very steep slopes, terraces wide enough to host orange trees, still productive today. Visitors can thus appreciate how patient, ongoing work has shaped the landscape, making it farmable and long-lasting over time.
Beyond marking cultivated plots, the walls play an essential role in supporting the terraces and preventing soil erosion. The PNRR project included the restoration of significant sections of dry-stone walls, using techniques and materials consistent with the local building tradition.
The Saie
The term saia (or saja) has Sicilian-Arab origins (from saqiya) and refers to an artificial channel used to distribute water across farmland. The saie bear witness to the influence of Arab culture on irrigation systems and on Sicily’s agricultural organization dating back 1100–1200 years.
The PNRR project works on two types of saie:
• on the one hand, the recovery of a very old system, now no longer in use, kept for demonstration purposes to show how water was distributed to citrus groves, before the introduction of modern irrigation systems;
• on the other, the restoration of a more recent saia, needed to prevent water losses, a precious resource for agriculture.
Restoring the saie makes this system readable again and enhances its role in the estate’s agricultural history.
Project access: The visit experience is supported by an information panel and digital content accessible via QR code to make it easier to understand the site.
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