Food and traditions
Red gold and new oil
A vegetable from the Americas that has become a museum, four truffle genotypes saved from an ice age, and oil mills that work by counterweight.
- 39 km
- A full day
- Easy
- 5 stops
Here food is not a side dish to the landscape: it is the landscape. The centuries-old olive groves of Sant'Angelo, the strings of peppers hung out to dry, the woods where the truffles grow. The route can be done in any season, but the last week of August is when Altino holds the Festival.
39 km in all between the first stop and the last, by car, with stops on foot. Approximate distance.
The stops
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Altino and its red gold
Altino
The village of the red gold, with its beam presses out in the hamlets and the centuries-old olive trees of Sant'Angelo.
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The Sweet Pepper Museum
Altino
Listening posts with the market gardeners' proverbs and touch screens with the old recipes.
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The Altino Sweet Pepper
Altino
How a serta is made, how it is toasted, how it is crushed in the “penele”.
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The salsicciotto frentano
Upper and middle Sangro valley
Above nine hundred metres, cold dry air is all it takes to keep it.
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The truffle of the Sangro Valley
Quadri, Borrello, Rosello, Pizzoferrato
Quadri, Borrello, Rosello, Pizzoferrato: the Noah's Ark of the white truffle.
The stops in detail
5 places
Architecture
Altino and its red gold
A village on a spur that looks over two valleys, and a necklace of red peppers hung out to dry: “a cocce capammonte”, head up.
Altino
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Museums
The Sweet Pepper Museum
Listening posts with the market gardeners' proverbs, videos on the stages of cultivation, touch screens with the old recipes. A museum about a vegetable.
Altino
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Food
The Altino Sweet Pepper
Small, horn-shaped, deep red, pointing upwards: “a cocce capammonte”. It is air-dried, toasted and crushed in a mortar called a “penele”.
Altino
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Food
The salsicciotto frentano
Where the air is cold and dry, above nine hundred metres, exposure to the air alone is enough to keep it.
Upper and middle Sangro valley
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Food
The truffle of the Sangro Valley
Four genotypes out of the seven in Europe survived here through the last ice age. A true Noah's Ark of the white truffle.
Quadri, Borrello, Rosello, Pizzoferrato
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