The oldest agri-food business in Italy HOME PRODUCTION AND QUALITY PACKAGING HISTORY CONTACTS Cassino Scanasio Castle . Paddy fields and canals, survey carried out in 1794. Stack with hydraulic movement. Gian Battista Spolverini, Rice cultivation , Bertarelli Civic Collection, Milan. Rozzano Castle of Cassino Scanasio . Plan and elevations of the rice mill executed in 1810. The president of RISA S. pA, Count Dott. Filippo Visconti di Modrone, receives the Golden Eagle from HE the President of the Council Hon. Aldo Moro. Milan, July 1966. History From medieval origins linked to the Visconti family, to the first large nineteenth-century industrial plants, passing through the hydraulic engineering works of Leonardo da Vinci: a story that unfolds over the centuries to reach the present day. Leonardo da Vinci Studies of hydraulic machines, 16th century. RISA owes its origins to the VISCONTI family who, already in the Middle Ages, rationalized agriculture and introduced rice cultivation in the Duchy of Milan. In the Renaissance period, LEONARDO DA VINCI worked as a hydraulic engineer at the VISCONTI-SFORZA who designed the canals, the irrigation works and even some hydraulic machines. Already in the seventeenth century the Visconti farms were equipped with "pilerie and mills" with hydraulic movement. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, annexed to their Castle of Cassino Scanasio, the Visconti di Modrone built the first large industrial plant in the sector where, in this century, the cereal blowing technique was developed. In 1937 the agricultural activity was transformed into an anonymous company called RISA and the first Italian rice blowing plant was installed and put into operation. In 1965, at RISA, the importance of puffed rice was also realized in dog nutrition and the ZOORI 'and CINORI' brands were born. In 1968 the great director Luchino Visconti di Modrone made the first advertising photo of ZOORI 'dog rice using, as in the scenography of the film "Il Gattopardo", the family tableware to underline the importance and nobility of rice. Since 1994 the company has been part of the Schiappapietra Finanziaria Group. 15th century XVI century XVII century XVIII century XIX century 20th century RISA Srl Via del Molino 50 - 12052 NEIVE (Cn) - Italy Stab. production : Via Leonardo da Vinci, 6 - 20088 Rosate (MI) Tel. 02 90849570/1 - Fax 02 90848571 - risa@risa.it VAT number 02493190041 - Company data Powered by Blulab