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The Farm Sergio Testini was started almost
one hundred years ago by Virgilio, Sergio’s father, who
owned a small estate in the village of Centoia, about 6 miles
away from Cortona, that served to support his then very large
family. Besides the usual wheat and sunflower crops, vegetable
garden and vineyard Virgilio also started breeding and trading
cattle.
Sergio devoted himself both out of passion and necessity to his
fathers trade and carried it on extending the farm and concentrating
it on wheat, sunflower and olive tree farming and swine breeding.
Sergio’s farm spreads today over a total surface of about
360 acres and includes four different swine farms located in the
municipalities of Cortona and Montepulciano and covering thus
both provinces of Arezzo and Siena.
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In
2002, wishing to renew and diversify his range of activities, Sergio
decided, together with his daughter Federica, to renovate one of
the old farmhouses included in the farm which once accommodated
the farmers who worked in the estate and convert it into the current
holiday farmhouse.
Il Giardino degli Ulivi is a small-sized estate located about 2
miles away from Cortona and about 8 miles from the actual farm equally
offering its guests a real chance to visit and take part in the
everyday activities of the farm itself: sowing, breeding, olive
picking, wheat threshing in June and sunflower threshing in September.
The estate also includes a charming lake, a real treat for those
who love fishing. In the farm guests will also be able to taste
our genuine cured meats made from the farm’s own meats. |