The garden is embraced by the summit of the mountain behind it and overlooks a vast horizon, opening views from south to west for many kilometers. The uppermost part, almost at the top of Mount San Michele, separates the Arno Valley from the valleys of the Greve and the Pesa, and is characterized by a valuable system of dry-stone walls. The landscape of Lamole’s dry-stone walls (a UNESCO World Heritage site) represents a masterpiece of land clearing that for centuries has defined the “heroic agriculture” of the tenacious Chianti farmers, who over time have improved this landscape, preserving it from hydrogeological erosion and developing mixed cultivation of vine, olive, iris, and arable crops.
Piuca proudly preserves this heritage, to the extent of consciously designating this part of the property as one of the garden’s areas of excellence.
Altitude: 650 m above sea level
Area: 7,595 sqm
Soil type: sandy, loose rocky soil, neutral to slightly calcareous
Cultivated plants: olive, iris, vine, almond trees, oaks
Wild plants of note: Sorbus torminalis, Opuntia spinosa, Crataegus monogyna, Cupressus sempervirens, Spartium junceum, Helichrysum italicum
