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Village for Greeks, Romans, barbarians, Saracens—a lot of examples of many peoples and populations coming, developing, fortifying, and the population growing. So, when the population is growing, you need spaces for food. To grow food for your animals, you need storage rooms. They were using the natural caves on this side as storage for food.
And as the population kept growing, especially in the eleventh and twelfth centuries after the Normans came, the city started to grow outward because they started to use the caves as quarries.
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In 1951, Henri Cartier-Bresson took a photo of this place — in via Purgatorio Vecchio in the Sassi Caves. His Leica M3 captured women and children going about daily life. Today, the place is abandoned.
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The bed, the crib for the smallest child, and an extra window for extra light.
And then, over there—to keep the grains inside—that piece of furniture, a table.
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