Pumpkin Festival
The pumpkin festival, also known as Pumpkins Celebration, aims to promote a local product that can be found only in this area and is very particular thanks to the characteristics of the soil, which makes the violin pumpkin an indigenous product to be protected and enhanced. The event is also an opportunity to promote all the local products with food and craft stands.
Ostellato - Italy/Ferrara/Emilia Romagna
Tourist experience: In the Mezzano Valleys, the soil gives the fruit unique organoleptic characteristics, and the pumpkin called "violina", with its orange pulp, compact, sweet and firm, reaches the highest quality. The Pumpkin Festival offers artisan and typical products markets, exhibitions and shows, food stands and workshops for children, to discover the ancient rural and agricultural traditions of the area. Every restaurant in the area takes part to the gastronomic circuit "Pumpkin on the table" and will serve special pumpkin-based menus for all weekends in October, interpreted by well-known chefs and restaurateurs always poised between creativity and tradition.
Experience duration: 2 days
Opening: Second, third and fourth week end of October
Less than 20 min by walk from the nearest accommodation, car parking or bus station
Tourist contact: Arianna Ferri ProLoco Ostellato
Cultural immaterial heritage: Handicrafts (such as embroidery, carving), Local events (theatre, music, dance, exhibitions), Local markets
Hidden intangible patrimony: Gastronomy and culinary practices, Knowledge related to agriculture and wild herbs
Experiences: Cooking class, Handicraft laboratories
Local contact: Arianna Ferri
Form filler: Tristana Randi