UNISG and Pollenzo
King Carlo Alberto established the Savoy royal estate in 1835, on the site of the Roman town of Pollentia. In the late 1990s, the Slow Food International Association devised a project to restore the vast estate, known as the Agenzia.
Its idea to make the Agenzia di Pollenzo a point of reference for international food and wine culture and quality food policy stirred interest and won the support of business persons and institutions. Agenzia di Pollenzo s.p.a. was thus set up to oversee the redevelopment of the estate, outbuildings, tower and the parkland, complete with its Roman ruins.
Since 2004, the main body of the Agenzia has housed the University of Gastronomic Sciences, the Wine Bank, Ristorante Guido and a hotel, Albergo dell’Agenzia. Today the state is one of the various Savoy Residences listed by UNESCO as a Word Heritage Site.
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