Pastificio Setaro - Pasta

What is the secret of Setaro pasta factory?

A patrimony of art, culture and ancient rites guarded since 1939, grown up with the same essential ingredients of all time: hand-crafted production, mixtures of durum wheat semolina and pure water, bronze dies.

I want two contraptions to make macaroni", asks Nunziata as dowry, before getting married and leave the house where she grew up. The Orsini's novel "Francesca e Nunziata" could be Setaro family story that, from generation to generation handed down the white art, symbol and richness of an entire area.

The pasta production in Torre Annunziata begins with the Count of Sarno, Muzio Tuttavilla, which realizes the first mills, around which, thanks to the water works and the easy transportation of the semolina, in 1850 the first pasta factories were born. The Pasta of Torre Annunziata, soon identified with the "Pasta of Naples", becomes famous all over the world not only for the craftsmanship of the work, patrimony of knowledge spread among the families of the place, but above all for the particular microclimate of this town, held in the Gulf, flooded by the sun, lapped by the wind of the sea and protected by Vesuvius. The roofs of the houses in Torre Annunziata were, in fact, in ancient times, an white expanse made by pasta that, thanks to a warm and light breeze, dried naturally, absorbing the flavours of the sea and the earth.