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The Fratticciola Museum of Farming Culture

The Fratticciola Museum of Farming Culture is a means of preserving and valuing the cultural, historical and ethnographic heritage of the agricultural world of the Valdichiana. It combines material – mostly from the association “The Cart” – with other artefacts collected in the area. Together, these provide an account of everyday life in the local countryside, which existed ...

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The Chianino Agricultural Cart

The Chianino agricultural cart is one of the symbols of the Valdichiana farming society. Distinguishing features are the long curved poles at the front, the long beam, and the typical decorations on the sides. The cart was used for every kind of transport, but particularly for bringing produce from the fields back to the farmyard during the wheat and grape harvest. The Chianina race of oxen were ...

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Large Cart

This extra large cart was used for transporting heavy loads. In addition to items strictly related to the farming culture are others representing various crafts....

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Gig or Trap

For the most part drawn by horses, the gig was a means of transport. Considering that not every family could afford one, the gig also functioned as a status symbol....

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Sulphur Sprayers

These bellows or sprayers of very different sizes were used to treat grapevines or fruit trees....

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Scales and Cash Register

In addition to objects closely related to farming culture, some tools representing specific crafts are also present. Among these are scales with two dishes used commercially for weighing foodstuffs in particular, and one of the earliest prototypes of an English manufactured cash register....

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Carpenter's Workbench

In addition to objects closely related to farming culture, some tools representing specific crafts are also present. Among these is a carpenter's workbench with some of the essential tools moved by means of a foot pedal....

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Plough

The seeding plough was attached to the oxen or cows and pushed by the farmer holding the handle provided. In this way the ploughshare dug the furrow ready to be seeded....

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Jack

This was used to lift heavy objects such as barrels....

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Carding Machine

Women used the carding machine on winter evenings to comb and clean hemp or raw wool, which was then spun to be made into cloth....

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