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A BACKGROUND

- The spirit of innovation

- Messapia, land between two seas

- Between the East and the West

- Defense walls, protection walls

- Journey to the South

- A vineyard between two seas

- Intuition turns into inclination

- A faithful betrayal

     
     

Masseria Li Veli

  
     

THE SPIRIT OF INNOVATION

In 1999 the Falvo family bought Masseria Li Veli near the town of Cellino San Marco, in the far South of the province of Brindisi, between the Murge region and the plateau of Lecce: a setting of great beauty.

This land, in ancient times crossed by the so-called "Limite dei Greci" - a fortified road which separated the Byzantine and Longobard properties - had been for a long time property of the marquis Antonio de Viti de Marco, an aristocrat from Lecce and one of the protagonists of the Italian economic history of the early 1900s.

An expert on the problems of the South and professor of political economics and finance in Rome from 1883 to 1931, he was deputy for many legislatures between 1901 and 1931. As an enlightened agricultural business man, de Viti de Marco foresaw the potential of this land and set out to transform the estate into a modern activity specialised in wine production.

He  rationally   organised   his   vineyards   in   quadrilaterals

  

Antonio de Viti de Marco

planting olive trees along their entire perimeter. His land lots still form crus, similar to the French clos, the closed vineyard, with undeniable benefits, thanks to the warm and cry climate, for the plants. The form of training was the alberello, following the tradition of the region, with low pruning and two heads per plant, each with two eyes.

It was the idea and determination animating the activities of de Viti de Marco that persuaded the Falvo family to carry on the activity started almost a century earlier by the famous economist, in continuity with the history of the place and personality.