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Our San Polino logo is the replica of the Etruscan sun symbol found on an ornamental bronze belt buckle dating from 800BC. The buckle is large and oval and would have covered the lower abdomen of a noble woman or preistess.
The Etruscans worshiped the sun, the goddess whose name was Catha. On this particular buckle the sun is depicted as being pulled across the ocean on a chariot by a water bird, probably an Ibis, towards the East, to its home, from where it would be able to rise with the dawn.
We chose this symbol because of its beauty, because of the magic of using an image created by a local artist almost 3000 years ago and because the power and movement of the sun is as important for us as winemakers today at San Polino as it was for those who worshipped it in the past.
The Etruscans worshiped the sun, the goddess whose name was Catha. On this particular buckle the sun is depicted as being pulled across the ocean on a chariot by a water bird, probably an Ibis, towards the East, to its home, from where it would be able to rise with the dawn.
We chose this symbol because of its beauty, because of the magic of using an image created by a local artist almost 3000 years ago and because the power and movement of the sun is as important for us as winemakers today at San Polino as it was for those who worshipped it in the past.
