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The territory of Montemarcello-Magra Park offers several local wine and gastronomy products and many traditional dishes characterizing the various areas of the inland and seafront areas of La Spezia, different for environmental and cultural features. Over 15 products have already been added to the regional atlas of traditional products (including different apple varieties, Birindella peach, Alberello courgette, etc.) and others will be added soon. The rich wine and gastronomy heritage includes quality agricultural products mainly coming from Val di Vara, like onion and Pignone potato, local traditional dishes like testaroli, mesc-ciua, lard paté, prosciutta castelnovese and Pignone sausage, Brugnato cheese, Sarzana sweets and, last but not least, the mussels of La Spezia Gulf.
Riviera di Levante extra-virgin olive oil has obtained the PDO label, Colli di Luni wine (white and red) the DOC label, Calice al Cornoviglio honey the PAT label (Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs). Val di Vara also boasts an autochthonous chicken breed: Gigante nera.

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Features: Famous and very good, these borlotti beans - locally called lumè - have a particular "rounded" taste, to the extent that they can be just boiled and flavored with oil. The pod is about 15-18cm long, while the seed, with its classical...
Category: Vegetables and Legumes
Pignone Onion
Features: Like for Rossa Genovese, the most common criteria for the classification of onions is based on their cultivation area, in this case the Municipality of Pignone. A spring-summer variety, Pignone red onion (Allium coepa) has an oval shape and...
Category: Vegetables and Legumes
Quality Brands:
Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs
Features: It's a round tuber with size going from 5g to 200g. Production Area: Pignone (La Spezia) Curiosities: As far as man can remember, potatoes have always been cultivated in Pignone and, for their quality, they have always been appreciated...
Category: Vegetables and Legumes
Quality Brands:
Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs
Features: bread made with flour and potatoes, round or tapered, with a small size. It does not weight more than half a kilo. It has a golden color, the crust is very tasty and it is soft inside. Preparation: the ingredients include 1 kilo wheat flour,...
Category: Bread
Quality Brands:
Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs
Testaroli
Features: Simple scones made with flour, water, and salt, cooked in the characteristic earthenware pots after which they have been named. Preparation: The ingredients include half kilo common wheat flour, 1/2 liter water, salt. Mix the flour with water...
Category: Bread
Production Area: La Spezia Gulf Product Description: Mussel farming in S. Teresa farming structure, where mussels are cleaned thanks to ozonized - and therefore sterile - sea water, maintaining their taste unchanged. Thanks to natural factors, the mussels...
Category: Fish
Quality Brands:
Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs
Gigante nera d'Italia
Features: Gigante Nera breed has been selected in Liguria since 1929, specially for the features of this region. Since it can reach the 4 kilos of weight, it is included in the heavy breeds. It can be recognized for its black feathers with elegant green...
Category: Autochthonous Breed and Meat
Quality Brands:
Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs
Production Area: La Spezia and inland Product Description: Soup made with beans, spelt, chick-peas, wheat and flavored - after cooking - with extra-virgin olive oil.
Category: Rice Pasta and Cereals
Quality Brands:
Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs
Features: Fresh cold cut that must be eaten within a month: the more time passes, the more it loses its characteristic aroma deriving from the essences used. The lard paté derives from the processing of pork lard, salted and flavored with local...
Category: Cold Cuts
Quality Brands:
Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs
Features: pork sausage flavored with salt, pepper, and natural aromas like nutmeg, cinnamon, and cloves. It looks like many small salami packed in natural bowels, about 10-12 cm long, with a pink color and white streaks deriving from the presence of beacon. Production...
Category: Cold Cuts
Quality Brands:
Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs
Prosciutta castelnovese
Features: Everyone knows ham (prosciutto in Italian), but only a few ones know the so-called "prosciutta", whose creators call the "happy wife" of ham. If the name is the result of imagination, the product is the result of a skillful family of grocers...
Category: Cold Cuts
Features: Red wine. Characterized by an intense ruby color when the wine is young, it becomes garnet red if adequately aged. Smell: vinous and nutty when it is young; intense, persistent, fine, with ripe cherry and black currant scent and slight undergrowth...
Category: Wine
Quality Brands:
DOC - Controlled Designation of Origin
Colli di Luni Wine - White DOC
Features: White wine, pale yellow. Rather intense and persistent smell, with floral and herbaceous scent and a slight rennet scent. Dry and sapid taste, thin-bodied but modest, with a good consistency. Alcohol content: 11%; Total acidity: 0.005. Production...
Category: Wine
Quality Brands:
DOC - Controlled Designation of Origin
Vermentino Wine of Colli di Luni DOC
Features: White wine. Color from pale straw yellow to straw yellow, with golden notes; fruity, rather intense and persistent perfume, with herbaceous, banana, and ripe peach scents, slight honey and cedar scents; dry but rather soft and sapid taste, sometimes...
Category: Wine
Quality Brands:
DOC - Controlled Designation of Origin
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