A large artichoke head, almost spherical in shape, of the Romanesco biotype, also called «tondo di Paestum»: it grows in the soils of the Sele plain, between the Greek temples and the sea, with a flavour that local farmers have refined over more than a century of selection.
The first plantings, brought by Neapolitan farmers, reached the land near the temples already in the nineteenth century; but diffusion on an economic scale arrived only in the third decade of the twentieth century, between 1929 and 1930, thanks to major land reclamation works and the agrarian reform that transformed the plain.
Protected Geographical Indication status arrived on 23 March 2004: the production zone covers fourteen municipalities in the province of Salerno, from Capaccio Paestum to Agropoli, from Eboli to Battipaglia, as far as Pontecagnano Faiano.
