A cellar carved
from the rock of Sorano.

The cellar under Palazzo Palloni has three distinct histories.

The first section, now the storage room at the far end, was carved into the tuff rock in the 13th century. The inscription on one of the cellar's main walls is dated 1499, marking a reorganisation of the space in front of the church of San Nicola. At that point the carved chamber was given a manger and used to shelter the pack animals that worked the streets of Sorano.

In the late 1700s, the Palloni family acquired at least three medieval buildings on this site, demolished parts of them, and built the palazzo above the bedrock. They excavated the cellar as they went.

From then on, the room was used for wine — the constant temperature of the tuff making it the right place to store what was produced from the surrounding vineyards.

Proud of its history,
the cellar lives on for today.