Apr 20, 2019
La Macchina Fissa was a pumphouse along the river Mincio, near Mantua, Italy. It pumped water with steam engines between the mid 1800s and 1929. Now it is my home and seat of Reading Retreats in Rural Italy. There isn't much water to see anymore and the pumps are gone, but with lots of big old buckets and tubes that all move water through simple siphons, a bit of water moves around the garden (or what will be a garden one day). #lamacchinafissa #pumphouses #italy #readingretreatsinruralitaly #mezzogiardiniere (presso La Macchina Fissa) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwfREzvIu9e/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1gu3mo24hathr
