The Tenuta Torrone della Colombara is located in the heart of the Vercelli province. This environment best represents the history of rice cultivation: inside, in memory of ancient tradition, the Conservatory of Rice Cultivation was built, with workshops of different tradesmen - blacksmith, carpenter, saddle maker, cheese maker, seamstress - and their homes, school and the quarters of the "mondine”, the women who gathered the rice by hand.