This southern Italian pasta factory run by the Marella family makes pasta the way it was made hundreds of years ago: by hand. In this image you see workers from the factory holding their signature Sombreroni, or large Mexican hats, each of which was folded by hand into the shape of a conical hat.

These hats can be stuffed just like Italian home cooks have been doing with ravioli, tortellini, and agnolotti for centuries. The colors are all natural, and take the spinach green, squid ink black, or hot pepper red traditional pastas a step further and combine a fantastic rainbow array of colors into one piece of pasta.

This is a feat that is not simple to perform, and still have the pasta hold its shape and not come undone while cooking. Their manually processed white pasta is also equally magnificent and unsurpassable in quality and actual flavor of the pasta itself, regardless of the sauce used for serving. With these pages, we would like to bring you images and facts on the pasta production of one of the finest pasta factories in the world that is located in Puglia, one of the most important regions in Italy for pasta production and consumption.