Friday 25 June 2010
Price for person: € 60,00
Technical tour
“A day in the Pontine landscape”
8,00 Departure
9,30 – 11,00 visit to PONTINATURA Soc. Coop. Agricola .
It is a young Italian reality specialized in the production and sale of baby leaf salad aimed at the pre-prepared salads industry.
11,00 – 12,30 visit to ALTIFLOR.
The Company, located since 1992 in the Pontine Planes south of Rome, has started its activity with the production of flowering pot plants and has kept on developing up until today offering now a wide range of plants.
13,00-14,00 lunch at the tourist farm ‘PIANA DELLE ORME’.
14,00-15,30 visit to Museum of Agriculture at ‘PIANA DELLE ORME’.
Reclamation of the Pontine marches, vintage farm vehicles and country life …….the time travel begins with the great epopee that radically transformed in the thirties Pontine land territory. The malarial environment, activities, settlements, territorial organization of the Pontine marshes. The reclamations, colonization and the construction of "new towns".
16,00 -18,00 visit to THE "GARDEN OF NINFA".
Gelasio Caetani, in the early twenties, set out to restore Ninfa by means of a well-planned programme of research, excavation and restoration of the ruins, laying out the foundations for a garden today counted among the most beautiful in the world.
18,00 – Return - along the "Road of the Lakes" through chestnut trees and on the top view of Albano Lake.