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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)

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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.
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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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Luigi Guffanti S.a.s. - Via Milano, 140 - 28041 Arona NO - Italy
info@guffantiformaggi.com
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