Years ago I admired the houses in the village of Bezděz under the castle of the same name. On the houses where the plaster had fallen off (and there were a lot of them, my goodness), the stone walls with the stone markers of the medieval construction company that built the nearby Bezděz Castle stood out beautifully. An example of reutilization of building material…
In previous posts I wrote about our visit to Cerveteri last year, but I forgot to mention one important thing. You see, one of my sons is obsessed with trains, wherever we go he looks for trains, tracks, tunnels and so on… And he always finds them with his unerring sense. Even in southern Kyrgyzstan, where there are no trains, he found a train set with a complete station. Unbelievable….
Well, Cerveteri. Tumuli nice, but my son searched the grounds of the Necropoli della Banditaccia for trains (!!!???) and of course found… Only mine carts, but that’s a train too.
I didn’t attach any importance to it, until this year when we were admiring the nice Roman amphitheater in Cassino (yes, right below Monte Cassino). My son, meanwhile, was looking for trains around the amphitheatre as standard… and found the mine carts again. This intrigued me and I asked a local lady why there were mine carts…
She smiled and clarified that the amphitheater was used as a quarry for construction needs in the town of Cassino until a few decades ago. Well, the quarry uses mining trucks…
Oh, reutilization…
