“Autumn flavours”, food festivals in Italy. WILD BOAR and POTATOE 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:

WILD BOAR FESTIVALS
Piedmont - Migiandone di Ornavasso near Verbania (October 4th and 5th)
Lombardy – Casatenovo near Lecco (October 3rd and 4th)
Tuscany – Balconevisi near Pisa (October 17th and 18th)
Basilicata – Dugenta near Benevento (the whole weekends of September and October)

POTATOE FESTIVAL
Liguria – Rovegno near Genoa (October 4th)
Lombardy – Lazate near Milan (From 24th to 27th September)
Lombardy – Mortara near Pavia (September 26th and 27th)

Italian food - Some Recipes with POTATOES:

Neapolitan croquettes (from the Neapolitan tradition)
Potatoes, rice and mussels (from the Apulian tradition)
Gilthead bream Apulia style (from the Apulian tradition)
Pizzoccheri della Valtellina (From the tradition of Lombardy)
Potatoes Pie (from the tradition of Trentino-Alto Adige)

Something about Italian Politics

• Everybody 18 and over can vote, however you have to be at least 25 to vote in Senate elections.
• The Italian flag is inspired by the French flag introduced during Napoleon's 1797 invasion of the peninsula.
• Since the end of WWII, Italy has seen almost 60 governments come and go.
• The colors of the Italian flag represent three virtues: hope (green), faith (white), and charity (red).
• Since October 1946, the national anthem of Italy has been Inno de Memeli.
• The prime minister serves as the head of government and is the one who runs the Country.
• The president of Italy is a ceremonial figure.
• Italy's current constitution took effect January 1, 1948
• The national protest song of Italy is Bella Ciao. It was made famous by Italian partisans in WWII, and can be heard at almost any protest.
• Italy is part of the G8.

“Autumn flavours”, food festivals in Italy. 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.

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

TRUFFLE FESTIVALS
Piedmont – Turin (From October 3rd to November 8th) Turin is the truffle’s world capital
Tuscany - Girone di Fiesole near Florence (September 26th and 27th)
Tuscany – Palazzuolo sul Senio near Florence (Every Sunday in October)
Umbria - Penna in Teverina near Perugia (October 9th and 10th)

Find out more about Italian truffles:
White truffles
Black truffles

Italian food. Recipes with truffles:
Bundle of pork loin with and truffles

“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

Italy and US and the nuclear agreement

Italy and the United States have signed last Tuesday September the 29th a five-year agreement to cooperate in the field of nuclear energy.

This agreement focuses on the development of 12 new-generation nuclear power plants in Italy and the two powers will work together in the fields of research and development, treatment and storage of nuclear waste, security and efficiency.

Italy abandoned nuclear power in 1987 after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and as all the other leading western powers use and produce nuclear power the Italian parliament has decided to reconsider this option and maybe cover 25% of its energy needs for the future.

This agreement will involve the exchange of information, personnel and materials between Italy and the US.

“Autumn flavours”, food festivals in Italy: HONEY 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:

HONEY FESTIVAL
Aosta Valley - Châtillon (end of October)
Piedmont - Marentino near Turin (from 25th to 27th September)
Umbria – Tornareccio near Chieti (26th and 27th October)
Calabria – Camigliatello near Cosenza (From October 16th to November the 1st)


Italian food - Recipes with HONEY:

Cartellate
Bonissima
Torrone
Panforte di Siena
Chestnuts crepes with warm honey