During the weekend of 15 August “ferragosto”, a bank holiday in Italy, Careggine, is filled with a festive atmosphere and scents alltraditional, characterizing each year “in the Apuan Feast“.

The cheese. It is one of the many protagonists of the basket of Lucca, sheep milk cheese, goat cheese, dairy cheese .. typical products of tradition. Is produced for the most part in Garfagnana and from here marketed. But its use is not limited to its consumption. If I told you that cheese is sport, challenge, bet, aggregation? And not as regards its preparation, its consumption, its sale .. but .. its launch.

CRUMBS AND crotchets, ON THE TRAIL OF THE GREAT MASTER

The term pasimata has two possible derivations: from Latin pasimatum means “bread baked in the ashes,” or the Byzantine pasimet“unleavened bread”. It is a typical Easter bread of the Lucca area, which can be prepared in different ways.
According to tradition, is prepared the day before Easter and, together with the eggs contained in a little basket, is brought to the morning Mass, to receive the blessing.

Unce upon a time people used to put the bottle in the corner of the fireplace. The beans, soaked in water, cooked so slowly, keepingall their flavor. Cooked over a flame, in special flasks of tempered glass, a little EVOoil, a sage leaf and a clove of garlic, beans are an excellent side dish. If accompanied by leafy vegetables “rehearse in the pan“, a tasty and healthy dish, suitable for everyone.

They are the typical Christmas cookies of the holidays tradition, they were given away in small bags to the boys and girls of the villages who went round singing “Befanate” door to door in the evening of January 5 went to announce the Epiphany,

Today “befanini” are prepared in many regions of Italy during the Christmas period and there is no breakfast or snack where they can miss.

S

an Biagio is the co–patron of Pietrasanta, a municipality in the high Versilia.

He is officially the protector of the throat, since he miraculously saved a child who was in danger of drowning with a fishbone in his throat. In many places of Italy, on February 3, the day dedicated to he Saint, after the liturgical celebration is practice the blessing of the throats of the faithful, and this also happens in Pietrasanta, in the Cathedral of San Martino, which exhibits, for the occasion, his relics.

Gombitelli is a small village between Camaiore and Lucca, just 20 kilometers from the city, a really pristine, rich in history and tradition. One among them its tongue. Gombitelli is in fact a ‘linguistic island’ where they speak an original dialect of Nordic origine, probably led by a group of German blacksmiths took to Italy with Charles V. The inhabitants learned the German language and gave birth to a very specifically idiom, even today spoke by the eldest of the country.

“Year 1914: Forte, this was the name it was known, came up with the navicello docking accuracy and put on top of the pier, end with a Bowline knot (la Gassa d’Amante), which was quickly fixed to the bollard . As its anchor was stable, the (left sail (la Mancina) began promptly at work, starting to lift loads with apparent agility, contradicted only by the creaking of ropes under tension.