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CARLO AND GIOVANNI GUFFANTI FIORI, THE FOURTH AND FIFTH GENERATION, RESPECTIVELY, AT THE HELM OF THE LUIGI GUFFANTI COMPANY.


LUIGI GUFFANTI (1850-1925)

When great-grandfather Luigi Guffanti, in 1876, began to season Gorgonzola cheese, his brilliant intuition was to purchase an abandoned silver mine in Valganna, in the Varese province. In the mine, with its temperature and humidity constant year-round, the cheese matured so well that Luigi quickly cornered the markets: his sons, Carlo and Mario, at the beginning of the 1900's, exported as far as Argentina and California, lands of Piedmont and Lombard emigration.

Maximum attention to the handcrafted quality of the cheeses and passionate care taken in the refinement process mark the proud Guffanti-Fiori family tradition handed, down for five generations.

Experience gained by processing the Gorgonzola has gradually been transferred to the Tomas of the Ossola Alpine pastures, the Reggiano Parmesan, all the cheeses, Italian, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese...

At the origin of it all, an old abandoned silver mine, that at a certain point, began to produce another precious good, one derived from milk.


Letterhead from the beginning of the 1900's


In the early 1900's, the goods (the cheeses) still came from Switzerland, the Ossola Valley and its side valleys, reaching Arona by way of the lake, transported by barges sporting characteristic square-shaped sails. From there, the trip continued by wagon...

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