Long Travel - Holidays in Southern Italy, Sicily and Sardinia

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Agritourism in Italy

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.

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