Description

If you want to spend few days surrounded by fascinated landscapes, you have to go to Orsigna, a little village in the Pistoia Mountains, discovering the chestnut process and the hard charcoal-burner's life! Visit with us the ancient Giamba's mill, built in 1820 and nowadays used to produce delicious chestnut flour! Along the way there is a metato (drying shed) for the drying process of chestnuts. There also is the Molino (mill) di Giamba, with two grindstones that work thanks to the water power. It was built in 1820 and it is still used for milling the chestnuts that are collected in the nearby woods. Before leaving you can visit an educational chestnut grove.Beyond the Molino di Giamba, proceeding along a dirt trail, it is possible to visit the reconstruction of the charcoal-burner’s shed and a cross-section of a charcoal pit, that give everyone the opportunity to understand the firewood combustion process that led to the production of charcoal.