Chiacchiere di Gusto Food & Wine Event
Chiacchiere di Gusto is a two-day event, held in the historical Casa Monti Museum, that showcases the excellence of the territory: about twenty high-level local producers - traders, craftsmen, farmers of Lower Romagna - present their products and explain their unique characteristics. Chiacchiere di Gusto’ main goal is to make Alfonsine’ territory, culture and museums known through the typical products of food & wine and life-style.
Via Passetto, 3 Alfonsine - Italy/Ravenna/Emilia Romagna
Tourist experience: Chiacchiere di Gusto is a food & wine and social experience off the beaten trucks. The event is a real full immersion in local traditions and offers an in-depth and rich experience of local life and food in Alfonsine, in the heath of Po Delta region still mostly undiscovered. Biological wines and cheese, black garlic, saffron, biological pasta, honey, just to name a few products which tourists can taste and buy during Chiacchiere di Gusto.
Experience duration: 2 days
Opening: Second weekend of July
Less than 20 min by walk from the nearest accommodation, car parking or bus station
Tourist contact: Michela Fabbri
Hidden intangible patrimony: Gastronomy and culinary practices, Local customs
Experiences: Cooking class, Handicraft laboratories
Local contact: Michela Fabbri
Form filler: Tristana Randi
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