Rome, Colosseum Archaeological Park starts cultivation of pantastic grapes on Palatine Hill

After oil, the Colosseum Archaeological Park will also produce... wine? It was only a few days ago the news of the olive harvest from the approximately 200 olive trees that abound around the Flavian Amphitheater: now the Park’s management makes it known that on Thursday, November 11, starting at 12 noon, the planting of a small vineyard will be presented in the area of the Barberini Vineyard, on the Palatine Hill, named after the Roman family of the same name that owned it in the 17th century.

The initiative, which is part of the broader “PArCo Green” program that includes different initiatives for the enhancement of the exceptional monumental environment and landscape, was created to present the project of planting rooted cuttings of the “Bellone” variety, a very ancient native vine that the historian Pliny the Elder called “uva pantastica,” still cultivated in the province of Rome.

Organized in collaboration with the project sponsor, Cincinnato Winery, the event will include a guided tasting of Bellone wine, which Cincinnato still produces in the territory of Cori in the Lepini Mountains, and an account of all the stages of processing as part of production from organic farming. In short: the Colosseum Archaeological Park has already given birth to an olive oil with the PGI label, so now will it be the turn of the wine?

Rome, Colosseum Archaeological Park starts cultivation of pantastic grapes on Palatine Hill

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