1 / 5The draining of the Fucino, one of the great engineering feats of nineteenth-century Europe. What the photographs do not show is who the new land would belong to. Photographs: Becchetti Collection on the Fucino, Central Institute for Catalogue and Documentation (ICCD).2 / 5The draining of the Fucino, one of the great engineering feats of nineteenth-century Europe. What the photographs do not show is who the new land would belong to. Photographs: Becchetti Collection on the Fucino, Central Institute for Catalogue and Documentation (ICCD).3 / 5The draining of the Fucino, one of the great engineering feats of nineteenth-century Europe. What the photographs do not show is who the new land would belong to. Photographs: Becchetti Collection on the Fucino, Central Institute for Catalogue and Documentation (ICCD).4 / 5The draining of the Fucino, one of the great engineering feats of nineteenth-century Europe. What the photographs do not show is who the new land would belong to. Photographs: Becchetti Collection on the Fucino, Central Institute for Catalogue and Documentation (ICCD).5 / 5The draining of the Fucino, one of the great engineering feats of nineteenth-century Europe. What the photographs do not show is who the new land would belong to. Photographs: Becchetti Collection on the Fucino, Central Institute for Catalogue and Documentation (ICCD).