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History of the Property<\/strong><\/p>\n The following history is mostly anecdotal but in the future we intend to more fully explore the exact history of these buildings and the story of Don Falcone to better understand the story of Incocco.<\/em><\/p>\n It is unsure when the first structure was built at Incocco <\/em>but there are old written and anecdotal references to the Region of Cocco dating back to the 1600\u2019s. There is a supposition that what is today the large barn was in actuality the first structure, likely a modest rural building providing home to both people and animals.<\/p>\n The estimated construction date for the present house is late 1700\/early 1800 and it\u00a0probably held two families with the centre of the building sheltering animals and crop storage above. This has been surmised,since during renovation, all the plaster was removed\u00a0from the house interior and doorways, fireplaces, hay chutes, and many other clues to the origins of each room were discovered.<\/p>\n The priest who purchased Incocco<\/em> in the late 1800\u2019s radically renovated most of the house into a luxurious dwelling by standards of that era. He used a multitude of carved stone, hand made terra cotta tiles; created a magnificent stone stairway and hand worked wrought iron railing with even a snake entwining up it; opened new windows, added indoor bathrooms and was even among the first in the area to have both electricity and telephone!!!<\/p>\n A 1905 postcard was published showing his residence and church in all its glory with guests outside in elegant period clothing, a copy of which can be seen on our homepage.<\/p>\n Once the courtyard held a frescoed \u201ccappella\u201d dedicated to the Falcone family, but now only photographs remain. Both courtyard entrances were through sweeping archways to which the still present grapevine had been trained to grow providing respite from the summer sun, but these and other special features created by the priest have unfortunately been lost over the decades along with his household possessions and the ornamentation of the church itself.<\/p>\n Examining the pictures here you will see some traces of these long gone architectural features. However, many objects\u00a0have remained\u00a0which testify to the subsequent agricultural period.<\/p>\n Upon the passing of Don Falcone, Incocco <\/em>underwent several changes of hands and many ideas were discussed for her future; one was from a local medical family who had envisioned her as a private health clinic. However, none of these projects came to realisation and in 1936 the property was one of several purchased by a\u00a0local farming family to\u00a0establish each of their sons independantly.<\/p>\n So this young family began to farm the land and their 3 children were born in the house, decades of work and a world war brought many hardships as well as rewards to them. It was a \u201cself sufficient\u201d farm as we say today, with Incocco\u2019s <\/em>land providing wood for burning, fruit, gardens, and crops while\u00a0growing chickens, turkeys, pigs, working oxen and cattle.<\/p>\n A large sunny hillside was planted with grapevines and Incocco <\/em>spent a prosperous era making her own wines. The old barrels and gigantic stone wine press are still visible here. The war brought partisans and Germans alike demanding food and there are many local tales of events at Incocco <\/em>during that era, one man told us an Incocco <\/em>chimney provided the hiding place that saved his life from an enemy inquisition!!!<\/p>\n Pictures of the Incocco<\/em> farming era, all planted and harvested by oxen or hand are above to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Incocco Early 1900’s \u00a0 Incocco’s Farming History\u00a0 1936 – 1993 \u00a0 Incocco\u00a0When we found Her\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2002 \u00a0 Incocco Renovation\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2002 – 2008 \u00a0 History of the Property The following history is mostly anecdotal but in the future we intend to more fully explore the exact history of these buildings and the story of Don […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incocco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incocco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incocco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incocco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incocco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.incocco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incocco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}