Historical centers in Sabine, Italy. Links between architecture and environment

This process of landscape construction, even though it had already started in the Roman period, it had the moment of maximum development in the phase of incastellamento (encastellation), during the Middle Ages. At that time in fact there was a shift from a dispersed habitat to an habitat concentrated in fortified villages, real directional centers of the civil and religious power. At the same time, there was the reorganization of the countryside below, according to that logic characterized by concentric areas with vineyards and olive-groves nearest, and with sowed fields and pastures farther.