In the small town of Gragnano, near Naples, the local population started producing artisanal pasta in the XVI century. Although since the romans the inhabitants worked wheat a produced bread. The towns name infact comes from “ Granianum”
Pasta production - the White Art - that has made the small town of Gragnano, near Naples, famous in the world, goes back to XVI century’s end, when the first families owned pasta factories.
Gragnano inhabitants were experts in wheat processing made it an economic activity: not at random Gragnano owes its name to a “praedium granium”, agrarian property where gens Grania, of Roman origin, dedicated herself to wheat processing, and where later some rebels refuged and founded an urban settlement – “Granianum” - moving away from Stabia city.
