“Autumn flavours”, food festivals in Italy. PUMPKIN & TRUFFLE 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.


PUMPKIN FESTIVAL
Lombardy - Fagnano Olona near Varese (October 10th and 11th)
Lombardy - Ponte San Pietro near Bergamo (October 10th and 11th)
Lombardy – Quistello near Mantua (October 10th and 11th)
Lombardy – Dorno near Pavia (October 10th and 11th)
Friuli-Venezia Giulia – Ampezzo (October 31st)
Campania – Scafati near Salerno (from 25th to 27th October)

Italian food - recipes with Pumpkin:

Creamed pupmkin and fontina cheese soup