2023-06-25 04:18:25
cipolletti
They evened, plowed, built canals, and so many other tasks to cultivate the land and progress. The meeting with descendants of the Zanola family was very pleasant, all its members demonstrated in their talks, the pride of belonging to a family of nonos who came to work, to leave traces on these lands.
Lorenzo Zanola was an Italian, born in Vallio, province of Brescia in 1902, who died in Cipolletti in 1979. According to the story of his daughters and granddaughters, Don Lorenzo worked on the farms of Cervantes, then settled in General Roca , where he worked in the Berardi pig shop and, in turn, helped with the completion of the main canal. Dancing at the Recreo in the city of General Roca, he met Maria Delai, born in Soprazocco in Lombardy. They married in 1929. As a result of this marriage, their three daughters were born: Ángela, Elida and Elsa. With savings they bought a lot in La Alianza that was very deteriorated: with the help of her brothers they worked on it to put it on its feet. In the 1930s they bought a farm in Ferri, located in Cinco Esquinas.
In the family story, the fact that Don Zanola called the farm street Roma-Berlin arose because Italian and German immigrants lived there in those times of the 20th century. Once the soil had improved, they sowed alfalfa, planted vineyards and fruit trees. With great effort they built their home, leveled and plowed the land, made canals and drains, and began to wash the land. They sold the pasture, they had a dairy cow, they raised pigs and poultry.
Their daughters attended school with the bus that entered the farms and the parents gave the driver wine, cheese, and ham for having had the courtesy to look for their daughters to transport them to school. The three sisters attended the pioneering Cuatro Esquinas School No. 45. The youngest, Elsa Bruna, Niní, attended school No. 36 and the secondary school in María Auxiliadora in General Roca. The eldest daughter, born in 1933, met Orlando Moreno, her husband, at the dances of the Prado Español. Orlando worked at AFD, Argentine Fruit Distribution. He later worked at the Banco de Río Negro and Neuquén and finally retired at the company Sanz y Cía. They had two daughters, Estela Maris and Marcela. Estela Maris married Ángel Siracusa and they had three children: Nicolás, Vanina and Sofía.
Elida María was born in 1935, graduated as a haute couture teacher and married Luis Cáceres, whom she also met at the dances of the Prado Español. Luis, a native of Ing. White, was a railroad worker and also worked at Toschi and Kleppe SA They had a daughter, Mariela, married to the engineer Juan Dante Vasallo. As a result of this marriage, their daughters Giuliana Belén and Ornella Paola were born. Elsa Bruna was born in 1941, graduated as a teacher and worked in different towns in the valley. She married the notary Pedro Mabellini. Pedro’s mother sang in the same choir as Maria Delai, in the church of Soprazocco, Italy. They had three children, Alejandro, Claudia and Carlos. The Mabellinis opened the Hotel Amucán in the capital Neuquén in 1975, which is currently managed by Claudia, a notary public like her brother Carlos. The eldest son, Alejandro, has a degree in Economics: he married Martha Zampierin and they had two children, Juan Ignacio and Santiago Alejandro. Carlos married Lorena Nicolás Creide, also a notary, and they had two daughters, Justina and Sofía. Among so many photographs and family memorabilia, we observed a truck, La Cambicha: it was the one that transported the railroad workers to fish in San Blas.
It was common to make the famous butchers where neighbors, friends and of course the whole family gathered. Tasks were shared with local immigrants and they helped each other, going from farm to farm. They had a great time at those meetings. They remembered their countries. They sang and told anecdotes from their distant lands. Today we honor them because with their hard work they opened paths that their descendants honor and continue, each one in their own way, but knowing that all the effort they make every day has solid foundations, which they established a century ago, when everything was yet to be done.
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