The Barba family is considered to have Neapolitan origins.
The abbot Francesco Barba, Neapolitan canonical, under the pontificate of Sixtus IV (1471–1484) had the task of collecting papal tithes.
A prominent figure in the early eighteent century was Carlo Barba. In 1750 he appeared in the ounce registry owner of a large volume of goods in S. Margherita di Atri, in the plains of Casoli and Fontanelle.
The generations that have come and gone in the years to follow have all contributed with tenacity and dedication to the development of land property.
At the end of the 50s, the Cavaliere del Lavoro Luigi Barba terminated the old sharecropping relations and began the direct management of the company first, equipped it with infrastructure and facilities in anticipation of the modern farming and paved the way to the most recent generation.
Today the Fratelli Barba farm, along with the SIAI, which has been successfully operating for 60 years in the field of production of bricks, is still the core business of the Barba family.
