Luna Nuova is a company specialized in the selection and commercialization of high quality fine jewelry and museum reproductions of Etruscan jewelry, in the tradition of Italian artistic craftsmanship.

We are proud to present our Italian fashion jewelry, which is characterized by its quality, originality and its competitive price.

Using modern means of communication, we want to showcase gold, silver and amber jewelry that reflect the creativity and tradition found in the work of highly specialized Italian jewelers, articles that normally are only available to those who are able to come here themselves.

We would like to be a link between the local master artisans and those who appreciate jewelry of great artistic quality, no matter what part of the world they live in.

The name Luna Nuova is a guarantee of the quality of both the products it presents and the quality of it's relationship with it's clients.

This is why we choose carefully the jewelry we sell, and why we pay scrupulous attention to the needs of our clients.

Welcome to Luna Nuova!

Luna Nuova
via Marconi 6
47826 Verucchio RN
Italy

NOTES ON VERUCCHIO

Altitude: 330 meters above sea level

Verucchio was chosen as an ideal place to live three thousand years ago.

From the top of it's rocky peak, Verucchio dominates the lower Marecchia river valley as well as the coastal area around Rimini. Back then it was much appreciated for it's strategic position and it's fertile land.

An extraordinarily refined civilization developed in Verucchio which has left important testimony of it's existence in the form of beautiful and precious works of art, evidence of a rich and flourishing community.

The "field of treasure" necropolis, discovered by chance in 1893, brought to light the unequivocal signs of an ancient past, of a civilization which has intrigued historians and archeologists: the Villanovan civilization.

In the excavations that followed numerous items of great historical value and interest, many of them practically unique, such as wooden utensils and cloth, not to mention a fabulous carved wooden throne conserved intact due to Verucchio's soil. Today these items, which have answered many questions about the Villanovans can be seen in the Civic Archeology Museum, housed in the ancient monastery of Sant'Agostino.

Verucchio was one of the first commercial colonies, governed by a warrior oligarchy of clear Etruscan origin, which prospered thanks to the flowering commerce along the Adriatic coast. The colony disappeared, probably due to the Celtic invasions in the sixth century BC, but long before the decline of the Etruscan civilization in Tuscany and Lazio.

The noble Malatesta (literally "Bad Head") family arrived in Verucchio many centuries later, in the first half of the twelfth century AD.

The Malatestas chose Verucchio to build an imposing fortress, and gave life to a flourishing community, adopting the city as their own.

From Verucchio Mastin Vecchio (literally "Old Mastiff"), of the Malatesta family, mentioned by Dante in the Divine Comedy, conquered Rimini, point of departure for his families rise to power, which it continued to exercise over the area for 300 years.

Verucchio has managed to conserve many of it's medieval characteristics, including the Malatesta castle.