The hills and fields around Canino, east of Capalbio, are home to a particular distinctive type of olive tree, called, remarkable enough, Canino, which has been farmed here for thousands of years. Canino was a thriving Etruscan agricultural town, allied with Vulci, and increased it’s regional influence during the middle ages with a number of smart alliegances with first Viterbo, then Tuscania.

Canino was the home of the powerful Farnese family, which included the future Pope Paul III, and also Luciano Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, who was the regional governor, after which power passed to the embarrassingly wealthy Torlonia family, who started as poor farmers and valets and ended up as one of the richest families in Italy through a series of shrewd alliances, business deals, patronages, and speculation.