Wineries

Castello del Terriccio

The ruins of the castle, hence the name of the company, bring us back to the Middle Ages. Strategically located in the hills, it was surrounded by a view of the whole Tyrrhenian coast: it was a watchtower from which the Pisans could see in time the arrival of the Saracen pirates and to avoid their terrible raids. Between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the bishop of Pisa, nephew of Pope Boniface VIII, in the name of the Roman Church, gave on lease the estate of the Gaetani Earls, who remained owners for five centuries, during which the fortified castle gave way to a more and more significant agriculture activity: hence the construction of the farm to organize the production of wheat, olives and grapes, the traditional cultivation of the area, with the realization, in the seventeenth century, of the farm and then of the winery.

At the end of the eighteenth century, that branch of the Gaetani family remained without heirs, and the Land was bought by Princes Poniatowski, who emigrated from Poland, to which the property – of great interest that was also mining, for the richness of iron, copper and other minerals found in the depths of the hilly terrain – belonged until the first World War.

Castello Del Terriccio

Azienda Agricola Poggio Agli Scalzi