The most famous and appreciated fruits of Romagna there are the peach, pear and chestnut of Casola Valsenio.
The Peaches and Nectarines of Romagna
are the only peaches to boast the European recognition of protected geographical indication within the European Union. Sweet, juicy and available on the market from the last part of the Spring until the end of Summer.
The Pear of Emilia RomagnaPGI
includes the cultivars: Abate Fetel, Cascade, Conference, Decana del Comizio, Kaiser, Max Red Bartlett, Passa Crassana and William. It is good fresh, for breakfast or as a snack. It can be used in a thousand recipes.
The chestnut has fed for centuries the populations of the Middle and upper Apennines.
Casola Valsenio’s brown
has high nutritional content, it is a healthy, genuine, nutritious, easily digestible food, excellent for inclusion in Mediterranean dietary diets, for all age groups.
It is very versatile either fresh or dried and could be a good substitute to cereal.
Among the vegetables, Romagna boasts some very valuable and quality crop.
A very incredible delicatessen is the
Scalogno di Romagna,
a real culinary delicacy, used in a wide range of dishes and condiments it is typical of the Faenza hill. The bulbs are used fresh or in oil.
Another real treat is the
Brisighella Moretto Artichoke.
In this area the artichoke, cultivated throughout the Mediterranean area, thanks to the particular climate and the clayey soil takes unique and inimitable color and flavor. This particular artichoke represents a rustic variety on which no genetic interventions have been performed. An autochthonous, organic and succulent vegetable that grows spontaneously in the typical badlands of the Apennines near Brisighella.
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