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The love for our territory and the desire to safeguard its potential have pushed us to improve and expand the offer of traditional products of our peasant family. After years of work and effort, it is with pride that we can boast the first organic certification of the Euganean Hills.
The oil mill dates back to the seventeenth century and was originally operated by mules or horses that turned in circles to turn the two large stone millstones that crush the olives. In the early 1900s it had been modernized with the installation of a steam engine of foreign production which took three days to arrive, pulled by four pairs of oxen. Unique in the whole west side of the Euganean Hills, the oil mill worked for two to three months a year.In early November, farmers arrived from the surrounding villages with their olives, some with ox-drawn cart, others with horse-drawn cart. , who with the wheelbarrow by hand. The current location is an annex of the Villa, where in 1960 the founder, Oreste Barbiero, transferred the business. Today the mill uses two lines, a traditional one with stone millstones and two presses for cold pressing and a more modern one with cold extraction. Currently the son of Oreste 'Paolo Barbiero' with his wife Pierangela manages the business with dedication and respecting tradition. The owned olive groves are divided into two areas: two hectares with 1,000 plants in Monte Brecale and 0.5 hectares with 200 plants in Monte Resino.
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Via Cornoleda, 15/B 3530
Cinto Euganeo (Padova)
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The love for our territory and the desire to safeguard its potential have pushed us to improve and expand the offer of traditional products of our peasant family. After years of work and effort,...
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Via Mantovane, 8/a 35030
Cinto Euganeo (Padova)
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The oil mill dates back to the seventeenth century and was originally operated by mules or horses that turned in circles to turn the two large stone millstones that crush the olives. In the early...
CONTATTA & PRENOTA