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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 St. Antonio the Abbot
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In Queen Elena Square, the church was first built around 1702-1703 thanks to the income deriving from the gold jewels that the earthquake survivors gave to the Christ at the column. The staute of 1610, made of painted wood and plaster, was positioned on the Baroque-style altar made in the '70s of the XVIII century with worthy marbles. Roccocò stuccoes and painting representing the Church's Doctors and the Evangelists, portrayed on the unique nave's wall, belong to the same period and can be attributed to Ermenegildo Martorana. Charity and Faith are represented on the vault; the Glory with Maria, St. Teresa d'Avila and St. Agostino are showed at the centre. Jaspers and onyx make the main Neoclassical altar really valuable. A big painting adorns it and shows St. Antonio Abate praying. In 1713 it was given to the holy building by the "cannamilari", sugar-cane farmers. The organ is by Platania brothers and dates back to 1838-1839.
(source: Avola, la città esagonale)