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This is a unique walkway, perched high above the street level: on one side it has tiny entrances to various ancient homes (still lived in today) and opposite, on the street side, it has a long line of arched openings which overlook the street beneath and give light.
Built approximately around the 14th century, it was the oldest defensive walkway of the village.
At the beginning it was open and served as an outpost for the guards but later, lost its military use, was covered and became home to many families. The alley was mainly inhabited by the carters who used the walkway to transport the gypsum from the Monticino caves with their donkeys (hence the name of the street). The stables were in front of the arches, while people lived upstairs and the carts were kept below, at the street level, in large cart houses dug in the chalky rock.
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La Via degli Asini è una strada sopraelevata che riceve luce dalle caratteristiche finestre ad arco, di diversa ampiezza. Costruita probabilmente nel sec. XIV, rappresenta il più antico baluardo difensivo a protezione del borgo. In un primo tempo scoperta, la strada era camminamento di ronda e via di comunicazione, poi fu coperta e inglobata nelle abitazioni quando perdette la sua funzione di difesa. In seguito in questo quartiere abitavano i birocciai, che trasportavano il gesso dalle cave sovrastanti il paese, servendosi di asinelli, da cui il nome “Via degli Asini”.
Le stalle si trovavano di fronte agli archi mentre le abitazioni erano ai piani superiori. carri da trasporto, “le birocce”, erano sistemate nei cameroni scavati nel gesso, che si aprivano nella piazza sottostante.

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