The Agriturismo Al Lambic’s story is that of Alessandro’s and his mother’ family’s story, Family Bettanini, the owner of the buildings and the fields’ all around it for five generations.

Thanks to the great energy, intuition and entrepreneurial skills of Filippo Bettanini, the family farm saw its most flourishing years in the second half of the nineteenth century.

At the time the family home was the centre of a large and thriving farm with a very rich and varied production that included maize, wheat, potatoes, beans, fruit, timber, fodder for cattle breeding and finally, silkworms bred by the women of the household, ensuring extra income for the family. From marc, the refuse of grapes after winemaking, the family Bettanini started distilling the Grappa that later, in Thirties’, Gabriele D’Annunzio – the famous poet- named “Rugiada delle Alpi” (morning dew).

In the middle of the 20th Century, in the plains farming became mechanic and mountain farming became economically unsustainable. During the Fifties and Sixties, in Tignale began a period of deep crisis: people gave up farming and a lot of them emigrated. Sad family events combined with the crisis of the mountain agricultural economy also forced the Bettanini family to abandon the countryside to start different activities, far from Tignale. Aunt Adriana, the last born and faithful guardian of the family’s places and memories, remained to live in the manor house of Prabione.