Testimonies regarding the importance of the tip are also present among historical documents. Its cultivation, which began in Abruzzo as early as the 5th – 4th century BC, had a notable development at the time of Roman domination, thanks also to the favorable climatic conditions of the area. We have evidence of this production both from the texts of Virgil and Ovid and other minor writers, and from the remains of ancient trappeti. During the imperial period the olive tree and other agricultural products became goods of exchange between Abruzzo and the capital. During the barbarian invasions and at the beginning of the Middle Ages the variety was cultivated solely at a family level, but, around 1200, the selection and development of its cultivation began in the abbeys of the Cisternesi Benedictine friars. During the Spanish domination the economy and agriculture of Abruzzo had a period of decline, but at the beginning of the 19th century, with the transformation of the feudal large estate into a bourgeois large estate and with the granting of ecclesiastical properties to farmers, agriculture had a new development, especially with the cultivation of the olive tree in which the straight one was the most widespread variety. In the Vestina area, as we have written, two different realities coexisted: on the one hand the large landholding families and on the other the owners of small plots of land. Large families often owned their own oil mill within the city. In Penne we remember the “D’Alfonso” oil mill in Piazza Luca da Penne and in Loreto Aprutino the Casamarte, Acerbo, Palladini and Treccia-Casamarte oil mills.