Offices and Wine Shop

We look forward to welcoming you from Monday to Friday, from 2 PM to 6 PM
Via della Segheria 1/H Montorio – Verona
For information: tel. +39 045 9237753  |  info@villasancarlo.wine

Villa San Carlo and the village of Montorio

Facing the sunset, from the top of Mount Martinelli, the Villa San Carlo Estate looks out onto the village of Montorio. Located just a few kilometres east of Verona, Montorio Veronese is a pre-Roman village that features the ruins of an imposing castle and a real treasure, i.e. water. The Romans had realised how important water was and channelled it into an aqueduct that served the entire settlement of Verona. Today, the springs and “ditches” are still its most valuable and remarkable feature.

It would not be implausible to think that Dante, in more recent times, who was likely staying at the summer residence of the Scaligeri family in Montorio, drew inspiration from the Montorio springs when he wrote:

We crossed the circle to the other bank near
to a fount that boils, and pours itself
along a gully that runs out of it

canto VII of the Inferno, The Divine Comedy (vv. 100-102).

The most recent remnants of a prosperous past – in which man and nature had established a mutually respectful and supportive relationship – are the canals, mills and factories.