The underwood fruits fair in Portico di Romagna

Autumn is here, let’s celebrate it with some of its special tasty products. Emilia Romagna is plenty of appointments: feasts, fairs are giving life to many of the ancient boroughs in the hills, especially those around the National Park of Foreste Casentinesi and Monte Falterona.

Let’s celebrate the Autumn in Portico di Romagna

Every year, in October, people gathers in the main street of the borough: tens of stalls, mainly hold by local producers, are there with their colours and smells to offer the best harvest of the forest. Here the woods are part of the every day’s life of people.

People since centuries got accustomed to live with the poor products of the woods, which are now very precious and much requested by the local markets. Recipes based on them are coming directly from history and while they were used to prepare every day’s poor meals, now represent a gourmand food.

So as in many Romagna fairs in the surroundings, Portico di Romagna express its tradition that is proudly offered to the tourists and visitors of this small paradise: mushrooms, truffles, red and dark fruits (raspberry, blackberry and similar), chestnuts. Here nature is very severe: no land to cultivate, only stones, woods and wild animals.

Tasting the Beauty of the Forest

The Portico fair, as it always happens in this little borough, is something exciting: all the people living in the surroundings come over to offer their products. A rainbow of fall colors: reds, browns, yellows all mixed together like the colors of the Fall Foliage.

The village becomes a medieval local market with sellers that are not the ones you can see in a normal market.

People are waiting this fair to buy the best truffles or to find the chestnuts they will eat with a tasty local Sangiovese red wine in winter, by their fireplace.