Bevagna’s Hazelnut Festa

All over Umbria in late October, early November, medieval hilltowns celebrate autumn culinary specialties in a fanfare of festivities. Hazelnuts take center stage in Bevagna’s Festa della Nocciola during the first week-end in November. Under the massive ribbed vaults of the thirteenth-century city hall – where medieval merchants once displayed their goods – volunteers sell…

Foligno, Where Honey Warms Up November

Fernando Checchini, Umbrian Regional Assessor of “Agricultural Politics” (literal translation), put it this way: “Bees and honey are important for the well-being of all. Bees offer a very high quality product and are important indicators of the level of biodiversity in our territories. Without their impollination, this biodiversity would be severely undermined.” At Foligno’s autumn…