The residents of Gragnano have always had a talent for working with flour and making a business out of it. Premiato Pastificio Afeltra was established way back in 1848, when processing pasta was the mainstay of Gragnano’s economy. After the Second World War, the number of pasta factories fell considerably and after the earthquake in 1980, the transferal of some and the rebuilding of others, including Premiato Pastificio Afeltra, which stayed in the Old Town, made it possible to build modern plants capable of competing with the big Italian manufacturers.Premiato Pastificio Afeltra is the only pasta factory, of the many that once stood on the old pasta makers’ road, to have survived the numerous difficulties which occurred over the centuries, and it currently operates in the original building used in 1848. For generations of Gragnanese people, not only has the pasta-making industry been a profitable occupation, it has also been an authentic passion, which still fills their hearts, like a unique and true art, the Art of Pasta!