La Fossa del Lupo

Chichì ripieno or stuffed chichi is a particularly tasty focaccia (flat bread) filled with tuna, anchovies, capers and red and green peppers. Perfect as a snack or aperitif and with local appetizers. Every year, the local tourist office holds the “Feast of the stuffed chichi” which takes place on the first Sunday of August and is an occasion for tasting this gastronomic specialty.

Funghetti, literally small mushrooms, are very simple cakes made of water, sugar, flour and anise. Originally they were available in the shape of a rosetta (small rose), since a certain amount of melted sugar joined a few of them together, the only inconvenience was that they tended to become very hard in a few days time. Today, they are also available as single funghetti, much smaller and softer, but lightly different in…

This is a very simple but tasty dish made of browned chicken stew flavoured with garlic and rosemary.

It is a particularly tasty rabbit stew with sauce made of pepper, anchovies, parsley capers, olives and small artichokes.

In the past years, this dish was very common among the poor. They are a kind of rather big tagliarini made of flour and water, without eggs. They can be tasted in different ways, as a soup with chopped onion and bacon or with tomato sauce.

The first relevant historic documentation of the burning of canes dates from 1814, according to an article by Guglielmo Allevi published in the “Ophys” review on 3rd March 1895. This feast takes place on the Shrove Tuesday evening, when big bundles of canes are set alight at one end and carried through the streets of the city on one or two people’s shoulders until they arrive in the main square where there is…

Offida Carnival is mostly characterized by the feast of Lu Bov Fint (dialect name for a fake ox) during which a fictitious bull, which once was alive, is driven by two people who lead it through the streets of the city followed by a crowd of running people wearing the guazzarò or bullfighter cloth. The bull is made of a wooden frame and is covered with a white and red cloth. This…

The Offida Carnival’s origins are lost in the past. They go back to the religious feasts of ancient populations celebrating the new year and the beginning of spring for propitiatory purposes. This Carnival follows every year the same calendar established by tradition. Its official opening is on 17th January, St. Anthony’s Day. The last two Sundays are devoted to friends and relatives, while Saturdays are animated by joyful night-long parties hold within Serpente Aureo…

The historic village of Comunanza is transformed into Bethlehem two thousand years ago, reviving the visitor the birth of Baby Jesus again this year, it is expected a large number of visitors, as is usual for this event that has become a must in the world of Christmas events in the area of Sibillini.