History
Local inhabitants identify the historic cascina or farmstead of the Agriturismo Marcarini by the name “Sargentin”.
The “Sargentin” was Vittorio Doglio, a man of small but of robust constitution who was a sergeant in the Savoy army in the second half of the 1800s. He added considerable wealth and prestige to the farm, which grew to be over 100 “Giornate Piedmontese”, or about 38 hectares.
The new land probably came into the sergeant’s po...