Fornello is a little, no sorry, a microscopic village belonging to the  Comune of Ziano Piacentino in the Piacenza province.

That’s where I come from. Fornello (“Little oven” in Italian) takes its name from the old oven where clay was cooked in order to produce bricks for building and construction. The first documented evidence of an agglomerate of houses is from around the 1100. Around the 1400 the oven was completed and the production of stones and bricks. In this period begun also the first reported plantations of grapes for wine production. The climate was so favourable for this kind of agricultural activity that the hills sorrounding this area are nowadays very famous for the quality of their wines.