These cellars were intended by HRH Ferdinand VI King of Naples (III as King of Sicily, and, after the Congress of Vienna in 1815, King Ferdinando I of the Two Sicilies). In December 1799, during his enforced stay in Sicily (Napoli was besieged by Napoleon), he was the host in Partinico of Francesco del Castillo, Marquis of the High Mountain. The place pleased him to the point he decided to purchase an estate with a farm and 80 salmes of ploughable ground. In 1800 the King, represented by the Knight Lioj Felice, Intendant of the Royal Commende, bought the land that eventually became the "Royal farm of Partinico".
