Nicastro pink garlic
Slow Food Presidium · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Products in season
Sulmona red garlic
PAT · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Vesuvius apricots (crisommole)
Slow Food Presidium · PAT · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Menaica anchovies
Slow Food Presidium · PAT · Fish and seafood
Open the product page →Old Ufita garlic
Slow Food Presidium · PAT · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Belladonna orange of San Giuseppe
Slow Food Presidium · PAT · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Trebisacce late blond orange
Slow Food Presidium · PAT · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Gargano orange
PGI · Slow Food Presidium · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Cacioricotta
PAT · Cheeses
Open the product page →Fucino plateau carrot
PGI · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Casiello of the Montagna Materana
Slow Food Presidium · Cheeses
Open the product page →Cicerale chickpea
Slow Food Presidium · PAT · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Navelli chickpea
Slow Food Presidium · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Teano chickpea
Slow Food Presidium · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Black chickpea of the karst Murgia
PAT · Slow Food Presidium · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Smooth chickpeas of Cassano delle Murge
Slow Food Presidium · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Somma cherry of the Lattari mountains
Slow Food Presidium · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Ciliegia di Bracigliano (cherry)
PGI · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Cipolla Rossa di Tropea Calabria (red onion)
PGI · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Castrovillari white onion
Slow Food Presidium · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Fara Filiorum Petri white onion
Slow Food Presidium · PAT · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Airola onion
Slow Food Presidium · PAT · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Alife onion
Slow Food Presidium · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Bagno onion
Slow Food Presidium · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Vatolla onion
Slow Food Presidium · PAT · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Cipolla ramata di Montoro (copper onion)
PAT · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Red onion of the Margherita di Savoia salt pans
Slow Food Presidium · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Acquaviva red onion
PAT · Slow Food Presidium · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Rotonda white beans
PDO · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Pulsano beans
Slow Food Presidium · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Acerra dente di morto bean
Slow Food Presidium · PAT · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Volturara Irpina quarantino bean
Slow Food Presidium · PAT · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Carpino broad bean
PAT · Slow Food Presidium · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Fichi di Cosenza (dried figs)
PDO · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Fico Bianco del Cilento (dried white fig)
PDO · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Prickly pear
PAT · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Atessa dried reale fig
Slow Food Presidium · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Frisella (twice-baked bread ring)
PAT · Fresh pasta, bread and pastry
Open the product page →Santo Stefano di Sessanio lentil
Slow Food Presidium · PAT · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Vairano giant lupin
Slow Food Presidium · PAT · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Toritto almond
PAT · Slow Food Presidium · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Lentiscosa maracuoccio
Slow Food Presidium · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Rotonda red aubergine
PDO · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Violetta di Ostuni aubergine
Slow Food Presidium · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Longobardi violet aubergine
Slow Food Presidium · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Neapolitan papaccella pepper
Slow Food Presidium · PAT · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Pappaluni beans
Slow Food Presidium · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Fucino potato
PGI · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Patata della Sila (Sila potato)
PGI · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Galatina new potato
PDO · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Carmasciano pecorino
Slow Food Presidium · PAT · Cheeses
Open the product page →Altino sweet pepper
Slow Food Presidium · PAT · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Traditional Salento peas
Slow Food Presidium · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Pomodorino del Piennolo del Vesuvio (Vesuvius cherry tomato)
PDO · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Manduria cherry tomato
PAT · Slow Food Presidium · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Verneteca Sannio cherry tomato
Slow Food Presidium · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Pomodoro San Marzano dell'Agro Sarnese-Nocerino (San Marzano tomato)
PDO · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Giallorosso tomato of Crispiano
Slow Food Presidium · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Terranova friars' plum
Slow Food Presidium · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Gesualdo celery
Slow Food Presidium · PAT · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Sècena rye of the Matese
Slow Food Presidium · PAT · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Puglia table grapes
PGI · Fruit, vegetables and pulses
Open the product page →Guides for the season
Sulmona red garlic
Neither PDO nor PGI: it is a traditional Abruzzo product, confirmed in the 2026 national list, and an Ark of Taste entry. A Valle Peligna ecotype that flowers every year, is harvested in early summer and keeps for a long time; the July festival at Campo di Fano and Sulmona's Giostra.
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Abruzzo arrosticini
Mutton skewers cooked on the canala, a story tied to transhumance, recognition as a traditional product and the road towards EU protection: how and where to understand them.
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Zungoli caciocavallo podolico
Podolica cattle, the Pescasseroli-Candela drove road, Byzantine tuff caves and a village between Irpinia and Daunia: how it is made, how to recognise it and how to visit.
Read the guide →Montoro copper onion
A sweet, long-keeping onion: traditional growing, genovese sauce and the Sunday parmigiana, the path towards PGI status, Montoro and its September festival.
Read the guide →Cipolla Rossa di Tropea Calabria PGI
Spring onion, fresh onion and storage onion: the PGI of Calabria's Tyrrhenian coast explained with its calendar, history, kitchen uses, Tropea's July festival and a day between Capo Vaticano and the old town.
Read the guide →Taranto mussels
The mussel of the Mar Piccolo: freshwater springs, pole and long-line farming, Slow Food Presidium, crisis and revival, and two days in Taranto between the old town island, the MArTA and the lagoon.
Read the guide →Fagiolo di Sarconi PGI
A PGI since 1996 in eleven towns of the upper Agri Valley: cannellini and borlotti in twenty ecotypes, hand-picked and quick to cook, Grumentum and the August festival.
Read the guide →Fichi di Cosenza PDO
Passuluni wilting on the tree, cane racks in the sun, crocette and plaits: the PDO of Cosenza dried figs explained through its specification, history, traditional preparations and a day between Cosenza and the Crati valley.
Read the guide →Fico bianco del Cilento PDO
The dried Dottato fig: history from Greek colonists to 1486, sun drying, spatole and mustaccioli, fillings, PDO rules and a journey through the hills of the Cilento.
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Prickly pear
From fresh fruit to preserves, an ingredient linking countryside and table.
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Mormanno lentils and bocconotti
A tiny, mottled lentil recovered from family plots and the shortcrust-and-jam bocconotto: Mormanno in the Pollino Park, its Votive Lighthouse and nearby villages.
Read the guide →Santo Stefano di Sessanio lentil
The Slow Food Presidium from fields above a thousand metres: sowing, hand harvesting, the soup that needs no soaking, the Medici village and a route through the Baronia, Campo Imperatore and Castel del Monte.
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Limone Costa d'Amalfi PGI
The Amalfi Coast PGI lemon: shape and scent, seafaring history, terraces and straw covers, twelve towns, the Lemon Path and its uses in the kitchen.
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Rotonda red aubergine and white bean
Two Lucanian kitchen-garden PDOs in the Pollino park: origins, growing on chestnut stakes, harvest, Garibaldi and the beans, recipes, preserving and a day between Rotonda and Viggianello.
Read the guide →Longobardi violet aubergine
A Slow Food Presidium on the Cosenza Tyrrhenian coast: a long, glossy aubergine grown upright, its preserve in oil and a day around Longobardi, Belmonte and Fiumefreddo.
Read the guide →Nocciola di Giffoni PGI
Twelve towns near Salerno, one cultivar, the Tonda di Giffoni: the long history of the Campanian hazelnut, PGI rules, the late-August harvest, uses in pastry and cooking.
Read the guide →Patata del Fucino PGI
A PGI since 2016, grown in the bed of the former Lake Fucino: nine Marsica towns, harvest from July to November, flavour measured by tasting panels and Avezzano's festival.
Read the guide →Patata della Sila PGI
Six varieties, spring planting and autumn harvest on Europe's widest plateau: the Sila PGI with mushrooms, chestnuts, mpanata, the steam train and the Camigliatello festivals.
Read the guide →Pecorino di Carmasciano
A raw-milk pecorino from upper Irpinia, shaped by the pastures of the Ansanto valley: how it is made, the Slow Food Presidium, the Mefite, Rocca San Felice and Guardia Lombardi.
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Senise crusco peppers
The PGI pepper of the Sinni valley: origins, growing, drying in strings, the powder called zafaran, fried crusco, European protection and the August festival in Senise.
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Pomodorino del Piennolo del Vesuvio PDO
Old ecotypes from the slopes of Somma-Vesuvius, hand-picked and woven into large hanging clusters: PDO rules, history, the pacchetelle preserve and how to cook with them.
Read the guide →Belmonte tomato
A pink tomato that can weigh over a kilo, brought back by an emigrant in the early 1900s, Belmonte's gammune, the ship-shaped village and the sea around the Isca rocks: a summer guide to the Cosenza Tyrrhenian coast.
Read the guide →San Marzano tomato of the Agro Sarnese-Nocerino PDO
History, forty towns, vertical growing, the rules of the PDO peeled tomato and the Slow Food Presidium for Naples' heritage tomatoes.
Read the guide →Primitivo di Manduria
The red between Taranto and Brindisi: grape and land, DOC rules, the Dolce Naturale DOCG, fifty years of protection, summer in the villages and a day in Manduria.
Read the guide →Food festivals of Basilicata and Irpinia
Wine, truffle, chestnut, cheese and pasta festivals documented by provinces, municipalities and official bodies, with recent editions and tips for enjoying them without rushing.
Read the guide →Gallipoli scapece
Gallipoli's fish preserve: small fish, chestnut tubs, saffron and scapece makers; the feast of Santa Cristina, Salento fish soups and the other scapece of the South.
Read the guide →Taurasi DOCG
Irpinia's great red: grape, history and land, DOCG rules, the Castello Marchionale with the regional wine library, the village and the festival calendar.
Read the guide →Gargano trabucchi and seafood
The wooden fishing machines between Peschici and Vieste: how they work, who protects them, which ones you can see and how to enjoy the fish of the Gargano coast.
Read the guide →Places for the season
Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park
The historic park of the central Apennines: valley villages, wildlife museums and the forests of the Marsican bear.
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Sulmona and the Majella
A historic centre in the Peligna basin, surrounded by the Majella park and the starting point of the Way of Celestine.
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Santo Stefano di Sessanio and Rocca Calascio
A stone village on the L’Aquila side of the Gran Sasso, with a Slow Food Presidium lentil and the transhumance fortress nearby.
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Trabocchi Coast
The Chieti coastline between Ortona and Vasto, with some thirty wooden trabocchi and the hermitage where D’Annunzio stayed.
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Accettura
Accettura: town and tree rituals.
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Scanzano Jonico
Scanzano Jonico: farmland and coast.
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Castelmezzano
Castelmezzano: a town among the rocks.
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Pietrapertosa
Pietrapertosa: the Arabata quarter.
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Rotonda
Rotonda: town and Pollino heritage.
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Terranova di Pollino
Terranova di Pollino: the Lucanian side.
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Viggianello
Viggianello: above the Mercure valley.
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Oliveto Lucano
Oliveto Lucano: wood, stone and Monte Croccia.
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Maratea
San Biagio, heritage and the landscape opening Coast to Coast.
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Pollino
A mountain landscape shared by Calabria and Basilicata, explored through walks, villages and a considered pace.
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Morano Calabro
A historic hill town to explore on foot and connect with the Pollino landscape.
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Tropea and Capo Vaticano
The clifftop town, the Tropea onion and the Capo Vaticano headland along the Costa degli Dei, on Calabria’s Tyrrhenian coast.
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Scilla
The town of the Homeric myth, the seafaring quarter of Chianalea and the stretch of Costa Viola facing the Strait of Messina.
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Cilento
The Cilento, Vallo di Diano and Alburni National Park: coastline, karst mountains, Paestum, Velia and the Padula Charterhouse.
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Amalfi Coast
The UNESCO cultural landscape between Positano and Vietri sul Mare: citrus terraces, footpaths, inland valleys and the history of a maritime republic.
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Picentini Mountains
A regional park of beech woods, springs and hill villages, with Giffoni Valle Piana and its film festival for young people.
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Alta Murgia
Stone, pasture and farming to explore the landscape beyond the towns.
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Monopoli
An Adriatic conclusion connected to the rural landscape.
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Otranto
The cathedral, Adriatic landscape and time to explore the historic centre.
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Gallipoli
The bridge, churches and Ionian townscape beyond a beach holiday.
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Santa Maria di Leuca
The sanctuary, seafront architecture and the outline of the coast.
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Torre dell’Orso
Sea stacks, pine woodland and a contrast with Melendugno’s inland villages.
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Gargano
Gargano: villages, woodland and coast.
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Vieste
Vieste: old lanes and fishing structures.
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Isole Tremiti
Tremiti: San Nicola and the island landscape.
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Foresta Umbra
Foresta Umbra: Gargano beneath the beech trees.
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Peschici
Peschici: the town above the cliff.
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