VLC16 is a television channel featuring programs for a modern audience and covering essential oil production. The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through the FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations), recommended our organization to VLC16, which was looking for an example of the evolution of peasant work to share with the people […]
And so it was that on a hot June afternoon in 2013, Matteo Pucci, a professional journalist and founder and editor of the Gazzettino del Chianti e delle Colline Fiorentine, arrived ti the man who scents Chianti. Traveling along provincial road No. 76, which leads from Castellina in Chianti to San Donato in Poggio, he […]
To speak of Provence in the Chianti region is certainly an exaggeration, yet who would expect to find lavender fields in areas historically dedicated to the cultivation of vines and olive trees ? Rock music blaring welcomes me in the square in front of the Officina Estrattiva, and I think, this is off to a […]
Born in 1892, painter Vittorio Zani was born, studied, worked, and died in Siena in 1972. A true Sienese. He painted the banner for the August Palio, won by the Nobile Contrada del Bruco in 1922. Vittorio Zani created the sketches for the renewal of the costumes for the Palio di Siena in 1928 and […]
