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"Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you who you are" is an old say which has always corresponded to the people experiencing the many different realities of our country. Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona, Campigna National Park and GAL L'Altra Romagna, in association with Slow Food and Legambiente, want to promote the strong heritage of knowledge and professions linked to local and traditional products, which are the result of the millennial coexistence of man and nature. A research starting from Atlante dei prodotti tipici locali dei Parchi Italiani edited by the Italian Ministry of the Environment - Slow Food - and Federparchi.

Raviggiolo
Raviggiolo
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Raviggiolo
History In 1515, the Magistracy of Bibbiena lands' Community gave as a gift to Pope Leone X some raviggioli, presented in a basket covered with ferns: this is the first historical evidence of this cheese, fruit of its production with rennet without...
Category: Cheese
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Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs
Raviggiolo Slow Food Presidium
This rare and ancient dairy product is produced in some valleys of the Apennines in Romagna. It is made with cow's raw milk and rennet, without breaking the curd but only draining the cheese and salting it on the surface. It has a slightly buttery...
Category: Cheese
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Slow Food Presidium
Mugello Chestnut (or Marrone)
History The first news about Mugello chestnut (or marrone) date back to the Roman Age. However, it became particularly important in the economy of the early Middle Ages, to the extent that it was quoted in the registers of the Florence Toll already in...
Category: Fruit
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PGI - Protected Geographical Indication
History Regina di Londa peach has unknown origins. The first information about it date back to the 1950s, when it was accidentally discovered by Alfredo Leoni from Londa: after analyzing its features, he understood the commercial importance it could gain...
Category: Fruit
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Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs
Current Production Area in the Park Bagno di Romagna, Bibbiena, Chiusi della Verna, Poppi, Pratovecchio, S. Sofia, Stia. Description It has a dark brown color, almost black with green reflections; if it is pure, it undergoes a very slow crystallization...
Category: Honey
Honey
History Without a doubt, describing the history of honey is not that easy. As a matter of fact, honey was born with bees, and the merit of man only consists of the discovery of its particular features. Over the centuries, the techniques to make the most...
Category: Honey
Chianina Cow Breed
History Chianina cow breed is without a doubt one of the most important and ancient breed in Italy. It has been named after its area of origin, Val di Chiana, situated between Tuscany and Umbria. The Romans and the Etruscans used big and white cows in...
Category: Autochthonous Breed and Meat
Romagnola Breed
History "It was not created in a while, nor it came out perfect as Minerva did from the head of Jupiter, but it is the result of the patient, clever, and passionate work of a group of breeders who, for half a century, have taken care of it...": in...
Category: Autochthonous Breed and Meat
Romagnola Cow Breed Slow Food Presidium
Romagnola cow is considered one of the most resistant cows to the climate among white cows: its adaptability to difficult lands makes it an ideal grazing animal that do not stand stall housing. Its milk is used for the calves weaning only, since this...
Category: Autochthonous Breed and Meat
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Slow Food Presidium
History In particular areas of Casentino (Vallesanta - Chiusi della Verna), as well as in isolated parts of Romagna, the pork meat processing has always led to the production of a very particular cold cut which is obtained from the pork jowl: the so-called...
Category: Cold Cuts
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Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs
Salsiccia Matta Ciavar and Sambudello Casentinese
History Salsiccia matta, also called ciavar, and sambudello casentinese share the same features of the other products obtained from the pig. Nothing gets wasted of this useful animal; everything must be used, and the most skilled butchers have always...
Category: Cold Cuts
Tortello sulla lastra
History There are no historical written evidences about tortello sulla lastra. It has always been considered one of the specialties of the territory lying between Romagna and Tuscany and is without a doubt one of the best "poor" products obtained from...
Category: Further Products
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