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Black and white image from the 70s of a mechanized harvester with a worker in overalls and Giovanni Domini who observes the operation and other people who help white lettering: mechanical harvesting

the boom of the 70s

These are years of intense commitment: new crops are planted and to cope with the increased production it is necessary to purchase a new and more capacious extractor and place it in new and larger premises. The vegetable production of flowers reaches several tons per year and the problems of harvesting are increasingly affecting production costs. For the mechanization contacts are made with Italian and foreign companies. The production of Essential Oils is...

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Black and white image from the 50s where an old uphill road with stone walls and protruding rocks leads to the Etruscan village of Castellinaccia once called Salingolpe; black writing: Castellina Vecchia

the old Castellina in the 50s: in the footsteps of the Etruscans

< When I was taken to visit the area before the purchase, I saw, together with an almost dilapidated farmhouse, also a miserable piece of land on the top of a hill at 630 meters above sea level where a dozen sheep grazed with difficulty. It was a plateau bordered by wild elms and ivy shrubs grown on dry stone walls about 2 meters thick and of ancient construction. Here and there...

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