Lunigiana boasts many typical local products among which also a high quality extra-virgin olive oil that, due to its particular features, has been labelled “Colline di Lunigiana” and has been granted PGI denomination. Indeed, although the trees used are those typical from southern Tuscany, the quality of the soil and the microclimate give this oil a medium fruity, bitter and slightly spicy scent and taste, [...]

The honey of Lunigiana was the first in Italy to obtain DOP status from the European Union. Lunigiana, a land that industrial development has by and large passed by, boasts meadows and grazing land and vast, uncontaminated woodlands: an ideal habitat for the development of apiculture. The production area extends over the territories of the 14 towns of the Comunità Montana della Lunigiana. The two types [...]

Lunigiana chestnut flour is very fine in consistency, ivory-white in colour, and possesses a characteristically sweet taste and an intense, distinctive aroma that persists even after cooking. This excellent flour is ground from prized varieties of chestnuts renowned for their organoleptic characteristics. The chestnuts are dried in old-fashioned “gradili” fired exclusively with chestnut wood, and then ground with traditional stone grinding wheels in water-powered mills. [...]