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how big is the desert?
The short answer is 0.0 km2, as the physical desert never existed.
As I wrote in my modification of the original "Accona Desert", the place never was a real desert, like the Sahara or the Death valley (USA). It was a podere (i.e. a farm, with fileds around and a house for the farmer, usually not the landowner, working the fields under a crop-sharing system. At the beginning of the 1300 there was no tenant and the landlord decided to use it to found a convent and a new order of monk. Such a man was later made saint. So the "desert" was transformed from "absence of farmer" to "geographical desert" during the construction of the myth about the saint (who died during the black death, which certainly help in this process). This myth was also helped by the retreating heads of fantastic calancos (gullies), now eroding the middle age village of Chiusure, 1 km upslope of the Accona farm. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dinobito (talk • contribs) 10:54, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
