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Castellina in Chianti’s Liquid Gold

4 January 20211 April 2022 Chianti & Valdelsa

BY GIOVANNI SALVIETTI In autumn, when the trees undress themselves, and let their leaves fall, as if they were daughters making light silk dresses for themselves, the olive tree bears its fruits created with difficulty in a long-awaited gestation. Thanks to an ancient process of transformation its liquid gold is distilled: extra virgin olive oil, […]

Chianti and Valdelsa Lifestyle

The Ironmongers’ in the history of Poggibonsi

4 January 20211 April 2022 Chianti & Valdelsa

DI GIOVANNI SALVIETTI Poggibonsi, early 20th Century, Dei Natale is known throughout the town for its vinegar plant: its demijohns at the ready and also takes care of hardware, guns and knives, all in Via Maestra in the heart of the commercial district of that era. We talk to the current owners of the business, […]

Catering & Producers Siena, Val D'orcia and Amiata

The memory of wheat

4 January 20211 April 2022 Siena, Val D'orcia & Amiata

BY SIMONE BANDINI This story has its roots, it should be said, in the last century, when Amedeo’s grandparents, farmers, bought a farm in the Val d’Orcia, a place which has been chosen as a Unesco World Heritage Site for the splendour of its landscape and the perfect balance there between nature and human activity. […]

Catering and Producers Siena, Val D'orcia and Amiata

San Conino, precocious beauty

4 January 20211 April 2022 Siena, Val D'orcia & Amiata

BY SIMONE BANDINI San Conino oil is soft, delightful in appearance and intense in taste. Like a graceful girl whose precocious myth spreads across the grassy slopes of the Val d’Orcia where the sweet song of the ‘two- tailed siren’ rings out – as in the brand symbol Alessio Panarese selected, a perfect koinè of […]

Culture and Events Siena, Val D'orcia and Amiata

The fire that precedes the light

4 January 20211 April 2022 Siena, Val D'orcia & Amiata

DI JORI DIEGO CHERUBINI “Tradition is not the cult of the ashes but the custody of the fire” is an admirable phrase of Gustav Mahler, and the more time passes the more it finds meaning and resonance. And the fire in Abbadia San Salvatore has been guarded for millennia during the Fiaccole [Torches]. A festival […]