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The Fishing Museum of San Feliciano
Do you want to know the history of the Trasimeno fishermen? The Fishing Museum is situated in San Feliciano, an attractive village of fishermen in which is still present and active a historian dock. The Fishing Museum tells the fishing history and the life of the Lake...
Pici, Umbrian and Tuscan traditional pasta
In our zone, on the border between Umbria and Tuscany, this homemade pasta is called "pici", while in other places it is known as "umbricelli" or "pinci”. Once the pici were made without eggs, so they were considered as the poor men's pasta. The pici’s form is...
Extra Virgin Olive Oil, “the Italian gold”
The main product of the Italian cuisine is the Extra Virgin Olive Oil. In the countryside many families own a olive grove, more or less large, but always enough to produce "the oil for the family" and also to sell it. In 2014 we felt like the Roman soldiers who were...
Fagiolina del Trasimeno, the typical beans of our area
Today we want to introduce you to a true speciality of our zone, the Fagiolina del Trasimeno. This small legume grows only in Umbria, in the proximities of the Lake Trasimeno! The Fagiolina del Trasimeno has a thin peel and a delicate taste, its seeds are of different...
Umbria, small vineyards, great wines
Ancient wines and modern technology are the basis of a wine industry of increasing importance. Wine-growing and producing in the Umbria region is the result of a highly specialised agriculture in the wake of age-old tradition and a production theory common to the...
History and modernity lives in Castiglione del Lago
Castiglione del Lago is the main town of the western shore of Lago Trasimeno, Umbria’s largest and Italy’s fourth largest lake. It is located on the important highway between Orvieto to the south, Chiusi to the west, and Arezzo to the north. This territory was...
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