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The industrial complex mills cereals and produces different types of pasta. It is located in a completely plain area near the former inhabited centre of Bastia Umbria. It covers 126.000 square metres and comprises sixteen buildings made in different construction phases (‘30s – ‘90s).
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The plant was the key of the development of the industrial sector and the town itself and today it is still very recognizable, even from distance. The first traces of the milling date back to the end of the 18th when the mill produced olive oil. However the site appeared in the cadastral census in 1822 as a blade mill with three millstone owned by Antonio Petrini to produce flour in the area of “Le Basse” in Bastia Umbria. Originally the mill was powered by hydraulic energy generated by the water of a channel of the Chiascio river but soon (end of the 19th century) a workroom that produced electric energy was added. In 1924 the factory started producing also the pasta “Spigadoro”. In 1955 the production of fodder was started, then sided by the chicken farming for meat and eggs (1964). At the end of the ‘90s the pasta factory was closed and all its activity transferred to the plant in Foligno. Today the mill produces flours.
