The stone hills
Lastreghe village was named after the stone slabs found on Coi de Pera, that is “stone hills”.
Restoring and building stone works means we have to be sensible and maintain the landscape quality: man has always intervened with a wise use of stone materials. In the 20th century the relationship between environment and stone has been through a deep identity crisis because of new materials introduced and because of raw materials imported from all over the world. In that period quarries where only used to get lime, by crumbling and baking the stone. Nowadays this industry seems to be about to be relaunched, due to new building procedures and to the sensitive recovery of the regional tradition.
Lastreghe stone is used for restorations, coatings, floors, staircases, garden ornaments, fountains, wells and similar elements. It is also used for structural works, load-bearing walls and roof coverings. The latter are still made in accordance with the tradition, which had different laying typologies, depending on the available material size and thickness: partial overlap of wide and thin slabs; orderly arrangement of thicker slabs, inclined; or a tight weft of small flat irregular slabs which could come from soil tillage.
The Stone and its architecture today
Detail: dry-stone wall coating. Private house, Visome, BL.
Detail: coping of low wall. Private house, Mel, BL.
Garden paving. Private house, Vittorio Veneto, TV.
Long, narrow stair-like flagstones recalling the old building system in the Upper Alpago area, shrine, Valdenogher, Tambre.
The Stone and its architecture yesterday
View of a group of houses, Lastreghe.
View of a group of houses, Lastreghe.