290 years of Royal Life

From 7 April 1631 until 1923, the estate belonged to the House of Savoy.

The House of Savoy came into possession of this land in April 1631, precisely on 7 April with the Treaty of Cherasco, following which the property belonging to the last Duke of Montferrat, Charles of Nevers, merged with the estate of Savoy, in the person of Victor Amadeus I.

In 1695, with the acquisition, for a symbolic price, of some of the neighbouring lands, the Savoy put an end to long contentions ongoing on part of the property, creating a property of land amounting to a total of 2400 "giornate" (3810 square meters).

In 1725, Victor Amadeus II, King of Sardinia and new owner of the land, destined giornate: 1100 of the 2400 giornate to horse breeding and the remaining 1300 to cereal crops. Additionally, he planned the construction of a number of buildings destined to crops, which were built in the following fifteen years.

In 1734 our farmhouses were built, named after Saint Sebastian.

In 1736, the Savoy decided to increase the cultivation of rice, and progressively reduced the territory that was originally destined to horse breeding. In 1741 it was decided to assign the whole land to cultivation.

In 1758 the Marquis Giuseppe Roberto Solaro di Breglio, king’s counselor, resolutely accomplished the task of turning all of the estate land to rice cultivation. The enterprise property, continuously devoted to rice production, belonged to the Savoy family until 1923.

From that date, the property passed to the "Real Estate of Vercelli" limited company, to come up to the present days, handing down through time the care and the passion for rice which once was Savoy's.