In Petralia Sottana, in Raffo Fraction,is located the one of Europe richest salt deposits, enclosed in a salt lens inside the heart of the mountain at 1100 meters above sea level. The salt field, 250 meters thick and 2 km² large, contains salt with a purity of sodium chloride equal to 99.9%. It is assumed […]

The Scillato Blonde Orange is a navel orange variety distinguished in three typologies: Washington Navel, Nareline and Navelate. With the terminology navel orange are indicated those orange varieties which have a “twin fruit” inside their peel, located in the place of the petiole. In Scillato area these varieties have ideal conditions and thanks to the […]

Those who try it, they buy it! The sfoglio delle Madonie is our Park most typical dessert and has over four hundred years of history. It is a pastry filled with Tuma (alpine cheese), pumpkin, egg, chocolate, sugar and cinnamon, baked and served cold. The sfoglio delle Madonie is mainly produced in Polizzi Generosa, Petralia […]

The ash begins to produce the manna at an age between 6-8 years, but not all plants come into production at the same age and in the same period. The maturation in fact, depends on a few factors: besides the variety, also the soil nature, exposure and altitude are important. The productive season starts depending […]

This Provola is a little more squashed and bellied than its cousin, the not very distant Nebrodi Provola, and it is produced in one of the richest in biodiversity areas in Italy: the Madonie. A mountainous land overlooking the sea: from its heights the sight ranges from Etna, to Nebrodi mountain chain and the Aeolian […]

The small treasure of Madionie food traditions. For more than two centuries in Polizzi Generosa gardens, inside the Madonie Natural Park, grows a small-medium rounded bean, called in dialect “badda”, which means ball. It’s a bean uniquely coloured with two tones, with a clear division between the two distinct colours which may be ivory with […]