THE ESTATE
AWAY FROM THE NOISE, AN OASIS OF PEACE
The Montereano Estate includes 62 hectares of organic land: a vineyard, an olive grove, a truffle grove and fields cultivated with ancient cereals such as Khorasan durum wheat, spelt or with typical legumes such as chickpeas and grass peas.
The company is surrounded by forests of oaks, oaks, hornbeams,
holm oaks and cherry trees.
Around the estate you can meet wild animals such as hares, pheasants, porcupines, weasels, squirrels, roe deer, foxes and many others.
The farm is organic and eco-sustainable, family-run, produces and sells organic pasta from ancient cereals, stone-ground and bronze-drawn.
THE ANCIENT RESIDENCE
In the heart of the estate, nestled on the first hill facing the medieval city of Gubbio, stands the Antica Residenza Montereano . The origins of the manor house date back to the 1600s and through subsequent expansions and renovations reach the present day. Next door and located on the same hill there is an ancient farmhouse typical of rural Umbrian civilization. .
The manor house was purchased in the early 1900s by
Count Prof. Guido Bonarelli, illustrious world-renowned geologist, scholar and paleontologist, returning from his adventurous travels in distant lands.
Since then it has undergone some transformations, however leaving its original imprint intact and giving life to a family hospitality that is aimed at those who love art and the search for authentic things.
The apartments in the villa and farmhouse, recently renovated, are equipped with heating, air conditioning and all modern comforts.
The residence is immersed in the park and surrounded by a beautiful Italian garden, cypresses, box hedges and pine trees crown the top of the hill making it charming and evocative.
PRODUCTS
The Montereano Agricultural Company has been entirely organic and ICEA certified since 1999. In the surrounding fields ancient cereals such as Khorasan durum wheat and spelt are grown. They are easily digestible cereals with a more assimilable gluten, without any residue of chemical pesticides.
The company produces, in collaboration with a nearby organic mill-pasta factory, organic, semi-wholemeal, stone-ground, bronze-drawn, cold-dried artisanal pasta using ancient methods. It preserves the qualities of the original organic seed, is rich in trace elements, antioxidants, fibers and vitamins, which are normally lost in the industrial treatment of commercial pasta.
The company directly produces and sells organic pasta handcrafted with its own flours.
The pasta is currently marketed to private individuals and restaurateurs with organic spelled, durum wheat and Khorasan pasta in the Gigli, Fusilli, Casarecce, Strangozzi and Tagliatelle formats. Many exquisite flavors to bring to the table!!!
On sale only in the company at Antica Residenza Montereano, for information info@montereano.it
The Montereano Agricultural Company , with the dedicated consultancy of an agronomist and a gastroenterologist nutritionist, going beyond the organic method absolutely free from pesticides and pesticides, promotes with its products a sustainable vision of global health of the person and the earth and in harmony with nature and its rhythms such as applying the ancient green manure method to non-intensive crops to increase fertility.
The company promotes a diet based on single dishes with more digestible ancient cereals than organic vegetables and legumes, containing a significant quantity of proteins of vegetal origin with high biological value, and trace elements from organic seeds, effective in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases and degenerative diseases so widespread in the dysfunctional society in which we live.
A FASCINATING STORY
GUIDO BONARELLI
A PASSION FOR LIFE, A LIFE FOR SCIENCE
The history of Montereano is inextricably linked to the person of Guido Bonarelli.
A scholar of the early 1900s, he was a geologist, paleontologist, anthropologist,
Oil pioneer in Italy, Borneo, Argentina and Africa.
THE FIRST STUDIES
Guido was born in Ancona on 07/25/1871 to Count Giulio Bonarelli and Countess Giulia Salvadori and died in Rome on 01/11/1951.
As a young man he moved to Gubbio and as a boy he became passionate about finding fossils in this area. From 1890 he began to produce a series of scientific publications on the subject of ammonite fossils. He graduated very early and began an academic career first at the University of Perugia and then Turin.
PALEONTOLOGY
Between 1895 and 1900 Bonarelli published around 50 scientific works mainly on the paleontology and geology of the Umbria-Marche Apennines, he created detailed geological maps which remained a point of reference for decades.
His identification of the ammonite Collina Gemma dates back to this period
(currently designed in the Montereano logo) https://www.lavalledelmetauro.it/contenuti/geologia-clima/scheda/245.html
GEOLOGY
Also in the same period dates back to the discovery in the Bottaccione Gorge of a geological level characterized by a thin, black bituminous shale, present throughout the world but particularly visible in Gubbio, known in the scientific world as the "Bonarelli Level".(https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livello_Bonarelli), a sign of a disastrous anoxic event dating back 92 million years.
OIL PIONEER
He developed mining and oil research on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo, then in Argentina and Tierra del Fuego. In these territories he also developed his anthropological research. In 1926 he helped found AGIP in Italy. Bonarelli together with Porro was called to direct oil exploration until 1935
in our country.
98 reports date back to this period, most on Sicily and some on Tramutola in Basilicata, where he discovered the largest Italian oil field, whose potential he had already sensed in 1927.
THE RESIDENCE.
REST PLACE
In 1904, returning to his homeland with the proceeds of his work as an oil pioneer and scientist, Guido Bonarelli purchased some land in Gubbio in the Monteluiano area. “Montereano” , the name he himself wanted to give to that place, was for him an oasis of relief, refuge and refreshment; the ideal place for moments of rest after long and tiring journeys in distant lands.
The house was renovated in the 1920s with its current forms and then again between 2003 and 2010 with the most modern anti-seismic and modern living comfort criteria.
