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Amandola local products and shops

Amandola local products and shops

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Amandola local products, in a town of the province of Fermo inside the Sibillini Mountains National Park, center on truffle, honey and the products of the mountain pastures. The municipal territory ranges from about 400 to 1,700 meters in altitude and crosses several vegetation belts: a variety of habitats that allows all the prized truffle species, white and black, to grow.

Amandola is a member of the national Città del Tartufo (Truffle Towns) association, and in its territory truffles are hunted by about one hundred truffle hunters. Alongside truffle, family businesses produce honey, saffron, organically raised meat and bread, with shops in town and in the hamlets.

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Amandola local products: what to buy

The signature product is the truffle. The Tartufo Bianco Pregiato dei Sibillini (prized Sibillini white truffle) is celebrated with «Diamanti a tavola», a regional event held on two weekends between late October and November, with food and wine stands in the historic center preparing truffle dishes and traditional food. The prized black truffle has its events between late February and March, while in July the summer black truffle meets Amandola's gelato-making tradition. Growing the prized black truffle has made it possible to bring marginal or abandoned farmland back into use. The town is home to the Associazione Tartufai Monti Sibillini (A.TA.M.), a truffle hunters' association that promotes the area with meetings, conferences and truffle-hunting outings.

In Amandola's cooking the best-known dish is fregnacce: egg pasta cut into diamonds, briefly boiled and rolled, originally dressed with pecorino and pepper and, on feast days, with a ragù of chicken giblets and humble cuts of pork. Today they are also found with local truffle. Typical dishes also include n'griccio, crispella and coppa maritata.

Honey is another Amandola product. Apicoltura Colibazzi Filippo, at Casa Innamorati, is a family business in its third generation: started in the 1970s as home beekeeping, it has been a farm business with retail sales since 1994. It produces acacia, chestnut and wildflower honey, cold-extracted, and pollen. Its awards include first place in the Apimarche 2004 Marche honey quality prize and the Goccia d'oro at the Grandi Mieli d'Italia competition in 2011 and 2015.

Azienda Agricola Villa Conti grows saffron in threads, chili peppers and an heirloom Sibillini apple, and produces honey within the Park. Fattoria Corradini, founded in 1989, raises cattle and pigs with organic farming and sells its own meat at its shop in town.

The high pastures of the Sibillini provide cow's and sheep's milk, used to make caciotta, pecorino, other dairy products and ricotta.

To round off the visit, the page Amandola: what to see and do gathers the town's other sights.

Amandola local products: map of the shops

These businesses dedicated to local products are in Amandola. Each has a page with details and contact information:

Before heading out, check opening days and hours on the individual pages.

Frequently asked questions

When is the truffle festival held in Amandola?

The Tartufo Bianco Pregiato dei Sibillini is celebrated with «Diamanti a tavola», a regional event held in Amandola on two weekends between late October and November, with food and wine stands in the historic center. The prized black truffle, on the other hand, has its events between late February and March. The exact dates of each edition should be checked with the town's tourist office.

What are fregnacce di Amandola?

Fregnacce are a typical Amandola dish: a sheet of egg pasta cut into diamonds, boiled for a few minutes and then rolled up without filling. The traditional dressing was grated pecorino and pepper, and on feast days a ragù of chicken giblets and humble cuts of pork. Today there is also a version with local truffle.

Where can you buy honey in Amandola?

In Amandola, honey can be bought from Apicoltura Colibazzi Filippo, a family business based at Casa Innamorati that produces and sells acacia, chestnut and wildflower honey, as well as pollen. Azienda Agricola Villa Conti also produces honey within the Park. Contact details and hours are on the pages for the two businesses.