A charming wine cellar in the Old Town houses the Pizzutello Museum, dedicated to the typical Tiburtine table grape and farming traditions.
On display are the tools of cultivation (hoes, spades, and bidenti), the characteristic grape sale counter, spray pumps for treating vines, and a motorcycle from the 1950s used to sell pizzutello on the Tiburtina road.
Other winemaking tools (presses, chariots, the wooden vat and crusher) and a large 19th-century terracotta jar for storing oil complete the collection.
Precious black-and-white vintage images show the floats of the Sagra del Pizzutello, organized starting in 1933, as the poster of the first edition recalls.
Inside the cellar, a cave carved into the rock was also used as an air raid shelter during World War II bombings.
The Cantina-Museum organizes the “Sapori del Lazio” festival of meetings and tastings and has published the short story “Lu Ghiattu co’ li stivali,” in Tiburtine dialect, in Italian and English translation.
He collaborates with the most popular Tiburtine periodicals, in which he delves into some themes of popular culture, such as the 1930s peasant song “S’è fatto notte e vojo annà cantanno,” which in the last verses mentions “‘na pergolata tutta piena d’ua de pizzutello,” while an article on the Cantina-Museo was published in “Vita in Campagna” (No. 7-8/2017), Italy’s most important monthly agricultural magazine.
The Winery-Museum also conducts agri-environmental education activities in schools.
The goal is to introduce students, the citizens of tomorrow, to the values of agriculture: an economic resource, a model of balance between man and the environment, food awareness to discover the seasonality of products, a treasure chest of identity to learn about the history of our territory and share the traditions that bind generations together.
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