• San Pio delle Camere - Early in the morning, as the sun rises, everyone gathers in the saffron field to pick the crocus buds. Then, in a centuries-old ritual, they sit around a table to handle the buds and dry them by the fire’s heat…

• Lunch

• Tasting of saffron recipes
• First course with saffron

Hours 8.30 All on

field! The saffron flower should be picked early in the morning,

10.00 am A bit of

history … Saffron arrives in Abruzzo, on the Navelli Plateau, in the

the thirteenth century…

11.00 am

sfioritura. Going to a company, around a table,

we will be engaged in the phase of spilling and selection of stigmas,

followed by the delicate operation of roasting on wood charcoal.

12.30 pm On trial

of taste. The excellence of L’Aquila Saffron is known throughout the world,

therefore we learn how to use this precious spice.

13.00 After the work of the camp one

deserved tasting from the appetizer to the dessert, made with red gold

Abruzzo.

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