The stone house dating from the sixteenth century is one of the oldest buildings in the area, and was formerly the largest olive and grain mill in the Castagneto region, known as the Alta (‘upper’) Maremma in Tuscany’s Livorno province. This spacious building used to be owned by Count Gherardesca, and at one stage in its history was home to five peasant families who worked the mill and farmed the surrounding land.

Today Mulino Rotone belongs to the German painter and writer, Karin von Jutrzenka Trzebiatowski-Gilliam, who bought the property in 1985 together with her late husband, the American sculptor Franklin Gilliam.