The Azienda
Agricola Il Mulinaccio
is situated in the valley overlooking Vaiano, ancient town by the side of
the river Bisenzio. |
In the year
1500 the estates into which area "Il Mulinaccio" is devided, are
brought forth as sharecropping. The owner is the florentine family Sassetti
(Filippo Sassetti, navigator in the Indian Ocean, overnight here and many
letters in his own handwriting are proving his stay in this land). In the
year 1609 the property is being sold to the Strozzi family. On 20th January
1661 Stefano and Giovanni di Prospero Vaj buy "la bella possessione
di moti poderi detta del Mulinaccio" for 14.800 scudi. By that time
the property is composed of seven farms: Apparita, Belvedere, Casanuova,
Granchiaia, Riposo, Strada, Tarravistio, but within the almost three centuries
of Vaj belonging (280 years), the property will come up to 36 farms, each
with its cultivated land, its house and annexes. |
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The XIX
century bings great renovation to the property such as, regimen of water-courses
with bridle and terraces, plantation of new pine-woods and cypresses, copse
is being increased with new extraeuropean essences (a mejestic yew is still
too be seen in the drain of "Spinaie"). Giuseppe Cavaliere di
Santo Stefano, Senatore del Regno d'Italia, accademic of Georgofili is the
one who strongly wanted, brought forth and personally followed up these
improvements. An inscription near the water course remembers him in his
centenarian (1904). The property reaches its greatest extension under the
Vaj possession (Ferdinando Vaj dies on 30th January 1941): further to the
share-farming estates, "terre a mano" (hand-worked) belong to
the property along vineyards and almost thirty let farmhouses in the area
of Schignano. After the death of the widower of Ferdinando Vaj, Caterina
Guicciardini dei Conti di Usella, life tenant of her husband's properties,
the main farm and all the possessions (houses, woods, vineyards, main villa
etc) are rejected from the testamentary heirs (Cottolengo of Torino) and
therefore sold by auction. The currently owner managed to buy the property,
creating the "Azienda Agricola Il Mulinaccio", aiming to the big
and grand style revival of the agricultural production of the year 2000.
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Trebbiatura
1953 |
Battitura
1936 |
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