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Feverish preparations for the eighth edition of the Festa del Torrone, an appointment that became tradition to San Marco dei Cavoti, a delightful little town of 'Alta Valle del Tammaro Fortore-which, in the center perfectly restored, preserves the charm of the ancient founders of Provence. In the scent of almonds, roasted hazelnuts, sugar and cocoa ingredients of delicious Croccantino, original creation of the local masters of nougat, which produce it today in many tasty variations. The classic white nougat or enriched in the new protagonist is delicate flavors, along with Croccantino, the sweet taste at the booth of the nine confectionery companies in the area. Because the festival is complete, the other typical local products are offered to the palate of the visitors, in a symphony of flavors that include dairy products, meats, taralli, oil, vincotto, honey, and the famous cassatina. Quality products, dedicated to tourism excellence in food and wine, to which there are musical performances, folk, entertainment, cultural activities and guided visits to the Old Town and the Museum of Clocks by Torre. A party, then that becomes a symbol of the area, discover a wealth of knowledge and traditions to be transmitted in time.

Date of event: 6-8/13-14/20-21 December 2008
More information about www.festadeltorrone.it

ACCOMMODATIONS:
Agriturismo Campania
Country House Campania

At the start, the seventh edition of "Falanghina Felix", Rassegna Regional Wine Grape Falanghina from Campania Region, which puts on display vitivicoltori and wines, acting on information intended for operators and industry associations, wine, enotecari, specialized journalists, restaurateurs, wine experts and consumers, through a series of initiatives aimed to the specific features and biodiversity. The aim of the exhibition, in fact, is to describe the knowledge through the use of typical and unique characteristics arising from different geographical areas of origin. Do not miss an interesting and unexpected journey through time. Head of the event is Sant'Agata dei Goti (Benevento province), chosen not only for its geographical location, central to areas of different provinces, where the bells falanghina grape is more common, but also for the possibility of combining tourism and gastronomy, in a place of great historical and cultural charm. There will be a tasting with all the participating companies and tasting seminars.
There will also be the "Premio Falanghina Felix", born to signal and support those who promote or defend the knowledge assets of vitivinicoltura bell, as guardians and interpreters of the values associated with the cultivation of the vine.

Date of event: 17-23 November 2008
More information about www.falanghinafelix.it

ACCOMMODATIONS:
Country House Benevento
Agriturismo Campania

Back "MALAZÈ Crater of Taste - Food and Wine Festival dei Campi Flegrei", an initiative which aims the headlights on the local gastronomic traditions, particularly related to the world of fishing. Slow Food Campania by a series of events devoted to food, the issues the defense of biodiversity, recovery of small-scale fisheries. Malazè aims to promote and bring together all those persons, associations, enterprises and cooperatives, which operate in the food and wine, culture and tourism of flegrea receptive.
Friday, September 12, Slow Food promotes Campania "Mangiamoli Giusti" in collaboration with the Fish Market of Pozzuoli, to promote compliance with laws on minimum sizes of fish, fishing sustainable fish unlearn, the nutritional values of fish. Saturday, 13 are in program two "Laboratori del Gusto", within the volcano Solfatara. It starts at 18.30 with "Healthy as a fish", c onversazioni, pictures, testimonials, samples, health and sustainability. At 20.30 there is a second laboratory "fried fish" with Gilberto Venturini, president of Slow Food Sydney, highlighting the secrets of flawless frying, in a location halfway between a laboratory and a lecture on the techniques of cooking. The event closes Sunday September 14 at Fish Market in Pozzuoli, with "A Sea of Blue," Fish Market Auction second Slow Food: arrival of fish from the sea, preparations, tastings, discussions led by the market, the rules of aware. The collection of the sale will be donated to charity.

Date of event: 12-14 September 2008
More information about www.malaze.it

Where to stay: Bed and Breakfast Naples - Agriturismo Campania

Return an appointment with "Pizzafest", the most important event dedicated to Neapolitan pizza. The event offers the public his vast eleven days entirely devoted to the plate for excellence in culinary tradition Parthenopean. Space to the spectacle and fun, with the evening show, shows, cabaret and music. This year in a program big news: a workshop discussion on "Chemistry of Neapolitan pizza," and four days of meetings and thematic workshops dedicated to the four typical products from Campania (tomato, flour, oil and mozzarella) that make Neapolitan pizza made in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture and Production of the Campania Region and the University of Naples Federico II (Department of Food Science), to deepen their knowledge and expertise of operators and consumers on the main ingredients of pizza napoletana. Everything offered to the public with the usual formula: pizza, drink, limoncello, coffee and much, much fun!
Also the international competition "Vote the pizza", the judges will be the same visitors who will give an assessment on the quality of the pizza tasted. As every year then, the "Pizzafest" even coeliacs can enjoy the true Neapolitan pizza at the stand of the Italian Celiac Onlus Campania.

Date of event: 11-21 September 2008
More information about www.pizzafest.info

Where to stay: Bed and Breakfast Naples - Agriturismo Campania

E 'a meeting between the most anticipated and unique in the panorama of wine reviews, which over the years has always attracted a considerable number of spectators. The "Festival" of Solopaca, borgo del Sannio Beneventano wine of great tradition, cuts the 31 ° target, with a full program of events and location of local products and crafts and handmade music. Key element of the event are the floats, small works of art with grains of grape daibravi masters carraioli that every year, with imagination, skill and creativity, manage to settle the grounds, making scenes, interpreting subjects and themes to be proposed to the public during the parade, along with 40 of the listed historical (which accounts for the Court of Ceva Grimaldi, former Dukes of Solopaca), the folk groups, the flag-wavers, the Bottari and street artists. The rent bill includes various events like fashion show, the Laboratories of Taste by Slow Food and Slow Food Taburno Telesina Valley and the conference "Sannio Senegal: Two different worlds .... the same magic. "

Date of event: 11-18 September 2008
More information about www.prolocosolopaca.it

Accommodation: Agriturismo Campania - Campania Bed and Breakfast

One of the products of land, the precious oil is at the core of the "XIII dell'Olio Day", scheduled at San Lorenzo Maggiore 12-13 August. In the characteristic village of Sannio Benevento, the machine organization is struggling with the final details to offer a two days aimed at enhancement of product through tastings and thematic meetings, and enhanced by guided tours in the historic center and an attractive billboard collateral, complete with concerts and performances of street artists. The initiative opens a window of knowledge and flavors that rise straight from the territory, to be soul of a party that wants to be together tradition and perspective. Under the "XIII Festival dell'Olio" many outstanding appointments. For the day August 12, at 19.00, at the Casa Comunale è previsto il Raduno delle Città dell'Olio, with walk through the streets of the country on the notes executed by the Banda Musicale "Giuseppe Verdi", and then, at 20.00 in Piazza Roma, second dell'Olio Festival and Conference on "Oil and its territory" at the end, presenting the mills, wine tasting and awards. On 13 August, however, breadth of the Court at 19.30, there is a panel discussion entitled "A valuable friend to our table and, to follow, the fourth edition of the Palme d'Argento di San Lorenzo Martire.

Date of event: 12-13 August 2008
Accommodation: Agriturismo Campania - Campania Bed and Breakfast

A set of exception for the "Festival of Taste", which takes place from 31 July to 3 August 2008 at the "Giardini Antonio De Curtis" in Grottaminarda, in the province of Avellino. The event includes music persorsi queen of cuisine with the "four corners of taste: pizzerias, braziers, salumoteca and formaggioteca, kitchen on the road. There will also be a wine with wines dell'Irpinia, the beer stand and the market for farmers. Four of the best restaurants Irpini prepare, in a mobile kitchen set, dishes only with different menus every night. The intensive program of the festival, developed by the organizers with commitment, combined with exceptional cuisine a fascinating series of concerts.

Date of event: July 31 - August 3 2008

More information about www.festivaldelgusto.com

Accommodation: Agriturismo Campania - Campania Bed and Breakfast

Vinal enogastronomic is a review that will take place August 4-10 in the historic center and the medieval castle of the Guard Sanframondi, striking the center of Sannio Benevento. The event, sponsored and organized by Circolo Viticoltori of the area, came this year at the XV edition and aims to promote local products and to enhance the area through the "journey of taste", which presents an attractive showcase for Most wines, but also oils, cheeses, meats, biscuits, honey and food. The program is rich in events and provides conferences, tastings and entertainment.

Date of Event: 4-10 August 2008
More about: www.vinalia.info
Accommodation: Agriturismo Campania - Campania Contry House

Tuesday, 15 July 2008, from 21 hours at dawn, in Battipaglia, at "La Fabbrica dei Sapori", the old canning factory restored and converted into a center with areas dedicated to the exploitation and use of local products, will take place the event "The Great Night of Rose, the best of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies." A big event like never before was seen in the Mezzogiorno: almost forty of the best rosé wine producers in South will gather for a night which promises to be colored by the long wisdom of women. Women are the protagonists of Campania chef who prepared the sample of banks that will open the 21st To do the honors of the house, will be the wineries Salernitane. There will be guests and tastings.

Date of event: 15 July 2008

More information about www.lafabbricadeisapori.it

Accommodation: Agriturismo Salerno - Agriturismo Campania

For Ascea in the province of Salerno, does the "1st Festival of Biodiversity and Legumes Cilentana" 23-29 June 2008. The exhibition is promoted by the Agriculture Ascea and is aimed at the recovery of production and added millenarians Biospiagge in the project, designed to enhance the reputation of products and rural domestic tourists in coastal areas. The event, aimed at producers, consumers and restaurateurs, has put the headlights on the chain of pulses with particular reference to landraces local tobacconists of bean-Mandia Ascea; bean written Terradura-Ascea; eye bean (or bean Velia ) - Ascea; bean queen of Gorga-Stio; of chickpea Cicerale; maracuoccio and cicerchie Camerata and bean Controne.
In this area was placed on the program "Adopt and tasted the great pulses of Cilento, which allows (by reservation) to taste the products of the new campaign at the Agricultural restaurants Ascea:" xebec, Mascolo, "" Port Rosa "," De Franco "," The chest "and" olive ", with a menu that includes: an appetizer-based trio of beans, then beans and pasta and anchovy salad, and the coast.
A particular interest is the conference on Saturday June 28 to 19 at the Fondazione Alario on "Protein required: large pulses of Cilento - a pact for eco-compatible agriculture." The meeting involved the journalist Luciano Pignataro (premium Veronelli 2008), Pascale Nino (president of Slow Food Campania), Raffaele D'Angiolillo (alderman of the municipality of Agriculture Ascea), Enzo Gaudi (president with direct Salerno) Enzo Crivello (Trustee Slow Food Sapri) and Nicola Di Novella (Director of the Museum of the Ancient Cultivations of Sassano).

Date of event: 23-29 June 2008

Info: agricoltura@comune.ascea.sa.it - Phone +39 0974 977808

ACCOMMODATIONS: Ascea Agriturismo - Agriturismo Salerno

The food model that embodies the precepts health more widely shared is the so-called Mediterranean Diet. It is not just a diet but a lifestyle overall, a good living. From Pioppi in the province of Salerno, was born the idea of a festival to celebrate and promote the Mediterranean diet, and with it the area that best expresses cultural, environmental and productive. The Festival aims to promote the recovery and revitalization of virtuous traditions, deeply tied to local culture, and excellent models that express the quality of life. The Festival of the Mediterranean diet, its second edition and tests the formula on the widespread occurrence of territory by drawing a meaningful journey of history and traditions of the province of Salerno. Pioppi itself as a destination for a wonderful weekend in the Parco Nazionale del Cilento. It will be also celebrated the "Night of Saint John, June 24, linked to many rites and legends: the night of herbs, dell'iperico, dew, witches, spells and the rituals of greeting, of fertility. These are historical traditions around the traditional bonfire on the beach.

Date of event: 21-24 June 2008

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