“Autumn flavours”, food festivals in Italy. CHESTNUTS & APPLES FESTIVALS

Autumn is the period of great specialities from our land: new wine, apples, honey, boletus mushrooms, chestnuts, pumpkins, etc.
Autumn is time of harvests and food festivals to celebrate and praise fruits of our lands and to say goodbye to summer and to fields’ labours.

Every region in Italy celebrates its own food through festivals that last for days. Let’s go and visit just some of them:

APPLES FESTIVALS

• Aosta Valley - Feta di Pomme in Gressan (first week of October);
• Aosta Valley - Melevallée in Antey-Saint-André (second week of October).

CHESTNUTS FESTIVALS

• Aosta Valley – Fenis (October 9th and 10th);
• Aosta Valley - Pont-Saint-Martin ( October 18th);
• Aosta Valley - Perloz (from 12th to 15th November);
• Friuli-Venezia Giulia – Montenars near Udine (October 3rd and 4th);
• Emilia-Romagna – Pontenure near Piacenza (October 3rd and 4th);
• Umbria - Sante Marie near L’Aquila (October 30th);
• Tuscany - Borgo di Rivalto near Pisa (October 11th);
• Latium - Porta Saracena di Segni (From 22nd to 25th October);
• Campania – Melfi (October 18th and 19th).

APPLES: Read the strudel recipe. One of the most famous cakes made with apples
CHESTNUTS : Here a great recipe with chestnuts from the Tuscan tradition!