CASINO FRANCHI

CASINO FRANCHI

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Organic Farming

Casino Franchi

The company's activities are focused primarily on the cultivation of olive trees and vines. It produces organic extra virgin olive oil with IGP certification and wine from organic grapes. The eight hectares of clayey soil, where the activities are carried out, host about three hundred century-old olive trees, to which a semi-intensive plantation of over a thousand more trees was added in the late 1990s. The varieties present are mainly Leccino, Maiatica, Frantoiana, and Nociara.

Dell’originario vigneto, di circa cinque ettari impiantato nel 1919, attualmente restano circa 40 are (varietà: Ciliegiolo, Sangiovese, Malvasia e Moscato francese).

Since 2019, the company, which has always maintained a natural cultivation of products primarily for family consumption, has officially enjoyed organic certification for the production of oil-bearing fruits and grapes for wine and table use.

Since 2020, it has been listed among the olive growers of Lucano IGP Oil.

Casino Franchi Agricultural Company
Riqualificazione e adeguamento funzionale del Casino Franchi in C.da S. Gaetano a Pisticci MT
PNRR [M1.C3 – INVESTMENT 2.2]

Redevelopment and functional adaptation of Casino Franchi

in C.da S. Gaetano in Pisticci [MT]
Project description

The funded project aimed to enhance the farmhouse complex known as “Casino Franchi,” with the intent of ensuring adequate accessibility and usability and a multipurpose public reuse .

To this end, the restoration and repurposing of the premises used as Cellars was carried out to improve the conditions of accessibility and usability for the public and to host promotional activities; as well as the arrangement and enhancement of the garden inside the complex with the creation of a path among traditional plants and equipment for a “Museum of peasant tradition” and the conservative restoration of the small Church of San Gaetano annexed to the complex.

“Casino Franchi” Project

PNRR [M1.C3 – INVESTMENT 2.2]
funded by the European Union - NextGenerationEU

CUP: G79B22001700004
1270

First documented traces of the Casale di Grassano.

1277-1320

Settlement of the Knights of the Order of Malta; the Casale expands and becomes the Commenda of Grassano.

1737

Commander Antonio Chyurlia drafts the Cabreo of the Commenda of Grassano, with a map of the granges and farmhouses.

1844

Priest Giovanni Gaeta purchases the San Gaetano Estate at auction, a building reworked on the remains of an ancient monastery with a private chapel.

1919

The original vineyard is expanded to about five hectares.

1998

About 1000 young olive trees are added to the original olive grove.

2019

The company, always dedicated to natural cultivation of products primarily for domestic consumption, has officially enjoyed organic certification for EVO oil production since 2019.

Since the same year, the company has been a member of Vinnatur, an association whose objective and statutory purpose is the promotion of “activities aimed at the cultivation

of vines and the production of quality wines, using natural methods linked to the territory, without forcing.”

2020

Since 2020, it has applied for and obtained registration among the producers of Lucano IGP Oil.