ABSTRACT
Landscapes with mixed cropping (coltura mista or coltura promiscua) were normal until World War II all around the Mediterranean, especially in the lower mountain zones, and in some places they still are. Different cereals and vegetables were grown in rotations between olive trees, vines and fruit trees, frequently on large sequences of man-made terracettes. In the same zone multifunctional chestnut forests occurred, and at higher altitudes beech coppice for charcoal burning and high pastures for sheep grazing, as part of the transhumance system.
