This story begins in 1934, in the province of Verona, when Augusto Dal Cero bought a very particular piece of land in the municipality of Roncà, dominated by two extinct volcanoes:

Crocetta and Calvarina.

He knew that hard work awaited him on that uphill terrain, but he is not the type to be afraid of hard work. To have that land that he so strongly desired, he had to sell another piece of land in the municipality of Montecchia di Crosara.

The two volcanoes have been there for more than 40 million years and time has reshaped them, but up there they still walk on a dark, almost black earth, made of lava and tuff. It is the geological memory of the

continuous eruptions and basaltic flows that ended up in the waters of the sea that, at the time, was around the two volcanoes. When the incandescent lava suddenly ended up in the water, it determined the glassy texture of the rocks that still form that land.