Virgil path

Chestnuts were called from Latins the "acoms of Jupiter", because the big and strong log and the leafly brances of this "cosmic tree", evocated Zeus, the Supreme God of Olympus.
Romans contributed to the spread of chestnut tree, of which they appreciated both fruits and wood, whose feature of hardness made it good for the realisation of structural works as may authors tell, among which Pliny and Virgil.

Today the most part of chestnut comes from piedmont areas and it is destinated to the market of fresh and dehydrated product: it is mostly used to produce food for cattle (above all pok, whose meat takes superior characteristics when it is feed with chestnuts) and in confectionery.
The use of building wood and the production of tannin is limited compared with the past, whereas today teh production of copses to make poles and spears used in viticolture, fruit farming and in ornamental sector as support for little plants.

Chestnuts' woods, especially held by copse, were spread until XVIII Century in Alto Milanese areas too. Today chestnut is rare. In Parabiago remain only few exemplaries.