Cafè Santa Helena, Samedan

Cafè Santa Helena Story
"The history of coffee in our family started in Brazil in the 19th century."

Thanks to the great work of our ancestors, it was possible to plant and expand the coffee plantations. Before the abolition of slavery, our ancestors had already freed the slaves, who continued to work on the farm with wages.

The need for a more qualified and stimulated labor force would have motivated our ancestors to progressively replace their slaves by European immigrants, who came to work in the fields. The farms had a great boost.

With the profits from this crop, intensified from the 1830s and 1840s that allowed the farm to finance the construction of railroads, the advance of urbanisation, the entry of imported machinery to modernize the coffee processing.