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National Parks
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Trulli Houses
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Volcanoes
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Agritourism in Italy |
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Explore
hidden corners of Southern Italy, Sicily and Sardinia experience
regional cuisine, local traditions and real Italian home
cooking.
You will be served delicious
meals, where most of the ingredients have been produced
in the place you are staying; fresh fruit and vegetables,
wine, the tastiest meats, all brought to the table from
the orchards and fields around you.
For
years, Puglia “the bread basket of Italy” has produced an
excess of crops. Olives have historically been grown in
the south of Italy for olive oil and then sent north, to
Tuscany, to be bottled. Tomatoes grown in the south of Italy
are transported in huge numbers to Naples to be tinned.
The west coast of Sicily is still a well-known area for
tuna fishing. Much of the food produced in southern Italy
ends up on tables around the world. The families of the
south know the secret of healthy eating and long before
it was popular, they were eating organic produce. Most families
in rural southern Italy try to be as self-sufficient as
they can when it comes to fruit and vegetables, but in recent
years, they have started to allow others to share their
delicious home produce - agritourism (or agriturismo
) was born. Families now devote their lives to producing
the very best; they work with a passion to grow and rear
only the most natural, often organic, crops and livestock.
Luigi
from Fattoria Dell'Uliveto sent one of his special salamis
to Prince Charles and Camilla for their wedding feast! His
“happy black pigs” snuffle contentedly under the trees and
are fed only on his organic crop. The “ricotta forte” cheese
produced by La Maiella's Mario, takes at least three years
to mature. Watch the water buffalo, on Ettore's Tenuta Seliano
estate, taking a cooling dip, before their milk is taken
for mozzarella - every agritourist experience in southern
Italy will be unique.
Not
only can the agritourist properties of Puglia, Abruzzo,
Calabria, Sicily and the other regions of southern Italy
provide you with a wonderful holiday destination, they will
also allow you to savour a rural and traditional way of
life and of course, an opportunity to taste the real food
of Italy.
For
the really adventurous, join in the grape or olive harvests,
learn to cook some of the things you have eaten or take
part in our Pick, Cook and Eat itinerary.
e-mail:
info@long-travel.co.uk
(please include a daytime telephone number) or
if you would prefer to speak to a specialist, call
(01694) 722193
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