This portal has an archivolt of worked stone ashlars. The keystone reports 1920 as the year of construction. The client and owner was either Don Umberto Diana, born in 1893, or his father, Valerio.
The portal has a wooden frame with simple, square shapes. On the right side, there is a cast iron door knocker and a latch-type handle, indicating the entrance door.
This is the entrance to a house twice its height with a rear courtyard, where there is a more ancient residential core, presumably from the eighteenth century, where furnishings of the rural and peasant culture are preserved.
An interesting feature of the courtyard are the ruins of the bailiff’s house, the man hired by rich landowners who was responsible for directing the work of the farm, standing in for the master in every way.
The bailiff took decisions, gave orders and hired farmhands and the gleaners who gathered the harvest.
Each courtyard, like this one, had a well that supplied water for all domestic uses.
The elderly still remember a time when they used to go and draw water with a jug from this fountain when the public wells ran dry in 1946, prompting a municipal decree ordering private wells to be opened up for those who did not possess one.
The courtyard now incorporates the area where the municipal administration built an air raid shelter during the Second World War.
