The Cantina Borbonica was built in 1800 by order of Ferdinand III, King of Sicily (who after the Restoration became Ferdinand I, King of the two Sicilies) and it represents one of the most important civil works of our country. The royal holding, whose topography was entrusted to Giuseppe Patti, an architect from Partinico, consisted of many plots of land - about 80 salme of land. Felice Lioj, land agent of the Royal Holding, bought. “A winery with wines, liqueur and oils, a warehouse, a tavern and a inn” were built within the Royal Holding and they represented the collection and business point of the Royal firm. The firm had a wide production of wheat, figs, fruit, vegetables, almonds, barley, broad beans, grapes, lentils, oats, fagiola moresca, majorca wheat, hay, oil, Indian corn, baby marrow, sumach, equivalent to a revenue of 1109 onze, 13 tarì and 2 grana. The Royal Holding had got an ammount of 227.748 plants, among which 33.847 fruit trees, 143.527 vines and many other plants, among which 69 medicinal plants.
This is a building complex that has no equal in the South of Italy for its dimensions and is suitable to collect the products of the wide royal holding, that represents a typical example of agricultural and industrial typology.
