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Fattoria Monte Fasolo is located in the heart of Veneto in the Euganean hills. Its conica shape belies their volcanic origins Fattoria Monte Fasolo has been a wonderfully unique and unusua commercial vineyard for over 30 years. Set high in the hills of...
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"Terre Stregate" has always been one of the more notable and renowned oil and wine-producing businesses present in the Beneventano region, today it has become a new business reality. To emerge above what it was in the past it has taken on a new location...
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Everything hinges on one exceptionally well-aspected "cru", or vineyard, on a gentle hillside where vines and gardens surround the Zuani cellar. The varieties planted are Tocai Friulano, Chardonnay, Pinot Grigio and Sauvignon, a carefully chosen range...
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Eight centuries ago, according to Pier Crescenzi's chronicle, vines were already being grown at Gambellara. And on those same green hills of the Veneto region, the Zonin family has been producing wines for seven generations. It is here that the roots...
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For over five centuries, the Conti Zecca lived in leverano, in ther heart of the Salento area, preserving the ancient relationship of respect and passion for nature that still represents the strong point of this wine farm. In the four family estates (Cantalupi,...
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Church of SS. Annunziata or Badia
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The holy building, in the old town, was part of the Benedictine's monastery founded in 1532 by the lords of Avola. In the new urban spot, the whole was rebuilt in the north-west corner. The church, with its magnificent concave-convex frontage, built as from 1753, is one of the most complete and elegant examples of Baroque style buildings in Val di Noto. Desiderd by Abbess Gertrude Azzolini, can be ascribed to the architects Rosario Gagliardi and Vincenzo Sinatra, then workinh together. Since 1768 the architect Giuseppe Alessi joins the building, drawing the chorus and the altars. In 1777 the Swiss Serafino Perollo made the roccocò stuccoes. The big nave's walls stuccoes show pictures of the Cardinal Virtues. The Glory with St. Benedetto and St. Scholastica are depicted on the vault. interesting are the apintings by Costantino Carasi on the minor altars, and over the precious main altar is the SS. Annunziata's painting, adorned with incomparable Baroque golden carved frames.
(source: Avola, la città esagonale)