"The Story of an Industrial Sicily."
I FLORIO
"story of a big family"
Originally from Calabria and moved to Palermo in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the Florio they soon became one of the most influential business families in Italy. Made up of wine (including the famous Marsala), shipbuilding, mining, shipping and communications industries, they made Vincenzo Florio Sr. a pioneer of Marsala and tuna fishing . The Florio empire, which numbered up to 16,000 employees, characterized Palermo's Belle Époque as "Floriopolis"
Baglio Florio
"home of a Sicilian dream"
Built in 1875 by Ignatius Florio, this rural baglio is located in contrada Vivignato (now the territory of Calatafimi Segesta, near Alcamo), strategically connected to the Palermo-Trapani railway . The structure was equipped with internal rails and turntables (dated 1889), useful for loading wine wagons directly into the baglio . After the economic collapse of the dynasty in the 1930s, the baglio was sold to the Adam (1931), who continued its production until the 1990s
Baglio florio
The Adam family
"story of passion and love for wine"
The Adamo family has its roots in early 20th-century peasant Sicily, the custodian of an agricultural tradition of hard work, vision and love for the land. In the 1930s, with courage and entrepreneurial spirit, the Adamo family acquired Baglio Florio from the Florios, beginning a new season of production that would span nearly a century. Among vineyards, grape harvests and barrels of must, each generation has left its mark: from the founding brothers of F.lli Adamo to the figure of Vito, architect of the great postwar expansion, to Vincenzo, modern heir to an ancient legacy.
Today as then, the Adamo family continues to cultivate its land with the same respect, turning time into wine, and memory into vision.
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