The use of earthen bricks in the Campidano area and adjoining valleys is attested archaeologically since the early Iron Age, (9th -VIII cent. B.C.) but is probably older. To speak of raw earth evokes, in the collective imagination of our area, the image of a poor house or ruin. Actually, in our territories, most of the houses that surround us are built in unfired earth, a technique better known to us by the term “làdiri,” and, numerous of them represent, in size, features and decoration the wealth of the owners who built them in the past. In most cases the dwelling was built using the same earth from the foundation excavation and shaped with sand and straw by the owner’s own hands. The earthen bricks were connected to each other with the use of mortar made from the same mixture. The roofs were generally made with a warp of wooden beams and rafters. Above the structure was laid out the cornicing on which the tiles were lathing. The Municipality of Villasor, with the acquisition and restoration of the Campidanese houses “Casa Podda” and “Casa Medda,” dating from 1920-25, has made available to the citizenship an identity space that is part of the Municipality’s Tourism and Cultural Services Cluster, which currently hosts courses of the Civic School of Music, events and temporary exhibitions.
