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The Museum of Rural Civilisation in Veroli: Twenty Years of Rural Memory in a Trail
The Museo della Civiltà Rurale in Veroli is located in Via dei Franconi, in the heart of the town’s historic centre. It brings together hundreds of objects, tools and photographs recovered by the Cultural Association "La Vetta" in over twenty years of local research. It is a journey into the pre-mechanisation era, when life in the Ernici Mountains was marked by the rhythms of work in the fields, pastures and artisan workshops.
Wet Nurses, Shepherds, Cobblers
The itinerary opens with a section dedicated to wet nurses, one of the best-known occupations of the women of Veroli, who were sought by well-to-do families in Rome. It continues with the reconstruction of an early 20th-century kitchen, and the tools of the woodcutter, the hunter — often a poacher — and the farmer. Three rooms tell the story of the transhumant shepherd's life heading towards the Pontine Marshes, the grape harvest and the olive harvest, for centuries the principal sources of local income. Then there is the cobbler's bench, where the ciocie — leather footwear common throughout central and southern Italy - were made.
A Land of Borders and Brigands
One section is dedicated to the ancient border between the Papal States and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies — the longest-lasting in Europe — and to the tales of the brigands who moved through these lands, acting first against the French, then against the Piedmontese. A cabinet displays the instruments of the medico condotto, the district doctor, an essential figure for those who lived in the countryside.
