The territory

The agricultural firm Mazzone is found in Ruvo di Puglia, near Bari - in the hinterland pugliese, surrounded from olive-groves and vineyards in the area of production of the Castel del monte DOC. The firm is situated in a country of ancient origins, in how much Ruvo di Puglia was an asset and florid center between the IV and the III sec. a.C., in fact the first finds go up again to the IX sec. a.C. In the III sec. a.C. the city entertained commercial and cultural exchanges with Great Greece, the Etruria and Greece. During the Roman empire it was first military station and then municipium and to the fall of the empire it knew the dominations Byzantine, Saracen and Norman; it was united subsequently to the county of they Converse. After the Aragonese ones and French it was in the hands of the conti Carafa and it got the liberty in 1806.