Certosa di Pontignano
The project
May 2002. Nearly a thousand
years on from when the land of Dievole was rented to the 1st vine dressers by the Certosa
of Pievescola, Dievole itself took over the land of the Certosa of Pontignano.
The University of Studies of Siena has entrusted Dievole the rebirth of the monastic culture in an opera defined by the newspaper Repubblica Archaeological Agriculture.
An Agro-Environmental Park has been created with vineyards and olive groves within the walls of the Certosa di Pontignano, using 20 different systems.
The aim of the project was to restore and re-value the environment by identifying and reproducing, in a modern way, the agro-alimentary system, in such a way as to not exploit the land and it’s resources.
The park is divided into two sections, one for specific cultivation (vines, olives, cereals,
aromatic and medicinal herbs), and the other mainly dedicated to the landscape vocation,
trying to combine the needs of preserving the “museum” / agricultural archaeology, and at the same
time try to give new life to the territory readapting it to accept the demands of modern methods
of cultivation.
Economically speaking the vineyards represent the most important cultivation of the project. It was also important in the past for the Certosa, as it was used not only for alimentary needs but also for the liturgical rites, gaining sacral importance.
The leading thread
of the vine project is time: the slow and meticulous discovery of the past; the intense
and hard work of the present; hope in the future and revival of a story that seemed lost…
The second cultivation, by importance, is the olive project, also a very sacral plant for all Mediterranean people.
The vine section will see a polyclonal cultivation of Sangiovese , as well as other already well known vines such as Colorino and storic vines (in smaller quantities) chosen by the institution of research. The olives, of polyconical structure, will reproduce the traditional Tuscan inventory (Frantoio and Leccino, and in smaller quantities, Moraiolo and Pendolino).
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