Memory Route

18/10/2019

01/12/2018

I know it sounds strange, but believe me, our water is delicious

Fresh, pure, crystalline spring water from our Valley

29/11/2018

Memory Valley in Autumn is just Beautiful...
The romanesque country church of Micciano near Anghiari

25/11/2018

"All the twentieth century contained in the 1027 pages of a picaresque epic, written by a semi-literate Sicilian, with a semicolon to divide each word from the next. In this way, the war on the Piave stripped of all rhetoric, in a memorably urgent and essential piece of storytelling.

Then, the poverty of the South, çibya and Abyssinia in a black shirt, a party to celebrate the landing of the Americans, the black market, bandity, manoeuvring between mafia and police, smuggling and legality

The birth of children, the economic boom and the art of getting by, even politics, with the disenchanted, candid style of a surpring writer who is now fully a part of the history of iyalian literature."

This is the autobiography of Vincenzo Rabito, you can enjoy it on a beautiful multimedial exibition at Piccolo museo del diario, or check for the original typescript at Archivio dei diari.

22/11/2018

Another hidden treasure in our Memory Valley: Mignano.

This hamlet was built with the typical structure of a Medieval Castrum. The whole castle is still evident with some portions of the external walls and the central square tower.

20/11/2018

Every Tuscan town pretend to be the "motherland" of Pici. People from , to skip this problem and not to argue, smartly decided to change the name of this particular kind of pasta: where everybody names it pici, in Anghiari are "bringoli".

Remeber it:

17/11/2018

What do you think? Was it a good season?
If you want you can check the olive harvest & the EVO making process live visiting "Agriturismo Il Faggeto".
It's only an idea, of course, but Leda, owner of this wonderful place & Extra Virgin Olive Oil Sommelier, is one of the few who can tell you all the secrets about our wonder

14/11/2018

The Hermitage of Cerbaiolo, near Pieve Santo Stefano

Yes it's
Yes it's
yes it's



pic by Luigi Burroni

11/11/2018

So simple, so good. One of the best tuscan desserts is with no doubt "Cantucci col Vinsanto", just crunchy biscuits dunked in sweet wine.

Just because making Vinsanto is kinda challenging, let's go with the Cantucci biscuits recipe. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

There are so many versions of it, but we must admit that the one we found on Eataly website is pretty good, and we would like to share it with you

Cantucci Toscani
Recipe courtesy of Eataly

Yield: about 60 cookies

1¾ cups raw almonds
5 large eggs
1 1/3 cups sugar
8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted & cooled
4 cups pastry flour
1 teaspoon baking powder

Preheat the oven or a toaster oven to 350°F.

Toast the almonds in the preheated oven until fragrant and lightly golden, 8 to 10 minutes. Set aside to cool.

Beat 4 eggs with the sugar. Pour in the butter, and beat until combined. Add the flour and baking powder. Mix until well combined, then stir in the almonds. Refrigerate the dough until firm, about 1 hour.

When you are ready to bake the cookies, preheat the oven again to 350°F. Line 2 jelly-roll pans or cookie sheets with parchment paper, and set aside.

Transfer the dough to a work surface, and cut it into two equal portions. Shape each portion of dough into a log the length of the prepared pans. Whisk the remaining egg, and brush it lightly onto the tops and sides of the logs, cleaning the brush of excess egg so it doesn’t drop down the sides.

Bake the logs of dough in the oven for 20 minutes. Allow them to cool on the pans, set on racks.

When the logs are cool, use a sharp knife to cut them at an angle into slices about ½-inch thick. Place the cookies on the pans, cut sides down, and bake at 350°F, turning once, until golden, about 25 minutes.

These crunchy cookies will keep for up to one week in a tightly-covered tin.
They are also perfect for dunking in coffee or tea

09/11/2018

Like Prince used to sing:
🎶And all that glitters ain't gold..🎶
.. it can be EVO 😜

01/11/2018

E guardai nella valle: era sparito tutto!
sommerso! Era un gran mare piano,
grigio, senz'onde, senza lidi, unito.

I stared into the valley: it was gone—
wholly submerged! A vast flat sea remained,
gray, with no waves, no beaches; all was one.

Giovanni Pascoli "Nella Nebbia"

29/10/2018

There is a beautiful way to discover , , & Area

If you are around don't miss I Centogusti dell'Appennino:

25/10/2018

are mature... we are waiting for the : Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Regione Toscana
Consorzio Olio Toscano IGP
Valtiberina in Toscana

23/10/2018

"Pan di Legna e Vin di Nuvole" in English sounds like "Wooden Bread and Wine from the Clouds". This is the proverb that our used to repeat many years ago when chestnut polenta was the only meal and water was...well, it was water 😉.

Today is an autumn delicacy and the brown flour you mill from it became one of the main ingredients for many delicious salty & sweet meals... yummy

Do you wanna enjoy it? Follow us on and we will let you discover it

20/10/2018

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19/10/2018

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18/10/2018

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17/10/2018

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16/10/2018

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15/10/2018

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14/10/2018

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12/10/2018

It is , the perfect month for a
Ecco an easy and delicious recipe

2 tablespoons EVO
1 onion, finely chopped
1 leek, white part only, finely sliced
1 garlic clove, crushed
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
1kg peeled pumpkin, diced
1 large potato, peeled, diced
1L chicken style liquid stock or vegetable liquid stock
1/2 cup (125ml) cream

Heat oil in a large saucepan over low heat, add onion and leek and cook for 2-3 minutes, until softened but not coloured. Add garlic and pepper and cook, stirring, for 30 seconds. Add pumpkin, potato and stock and bring to the boil. Turn heat to low, cover and simmer for 30 minutes. Allow to cool slightly, then blend in batches.
Return soup to pan, stir through cream and reheat gently. Season and add a little more nutmeg, pepper or EVO if desired.

08/10/2018

Vendemmia Time...
This pic is evocative, romantic & charming but let us be sincere, nowadays nobody squeezes juice like this.
It doesn't mean that wine isn't good like in the old days.
It is actually much better 😉

06/10/2018

It was no coincidence that the Diary Archive was established in Pieve Santo Stefano. Where the German mines in 1944 wiped out much of the architectural and artistic memory of the town, now there is the place that holds the written memory of a nation. The easy walking in the town provides the possibility of discovering what has been preserved.
For example, there is the Tempietto del Colledestro, which, from ancient Roman times, has celebrated the bond between Pieve and the river Tiber which passes through the old town. This is a place rich in Tuscan art (see: Della Robbia survived work), and the former location of the Florentine magistrates. Our walking tour will end at the Basilica della Madonna dei Lumi, founded in 1590 on the site of an angelic miracle, which has given the town one of the most beautiful festivals in this region of Tuscany. You will walk to the rhythm of stories about Pieve, preserved in Pieve itself, in the Archive.

Archivio dei diari
Piccolo museo del diario
Pieve Santo Stefano

04/10/2018

Every detail counts to describe an experience, but when you are on Memory Route there are so many details that you can do it with only one definition:

01/10/2018

Every Italian Nonna knows how to do it
Do You still make - ?

28/09/2018

Looks like a work of art. Do you still prepare homemade pasta?

Everybody loves Castello di Sorci pasta. Generations of Italians went there for a nice, juicy, fresh made al .

Every "sfoglina" lady that makes tagliatelle looks like part of a team of priestess who keeps a sort of secret... but we wanna share it and let you enjoy it with our Memory Route experience

25/09/2018

Have you ever thought that a medieval town like can be the perfect 🐈 playground?
- no cars
- many rooftops
- secret corners for an ambush
- shade
- other 😉cats

22/09/2018

Read this, is cool:
During this spring frenzy, they sometimes strike one another with their paws ("boxing"). This is usually not competition between males, but a female hitting a male, either to show she is not yet ready to mate or as a test of his determination 😂🔝😂

19/09/2018

The Piccolo museo del diario (Small Museum of the Diary) in Pieve Santo Stefano: a tiny museum which holds treasures of history and memories, in a digital and interactive form.

A multimedia experience of storytelling and memory in the Small Museum of the Diary, which was established in 2013. An essential stop in the Memory Route.

The multimedia route was produced by Interaction design Studio in Milan, dotdotdot.it, who were inspired by the book “Il paese dei diari” (The town of the diaries, Terre di Mezzo) written by Mario Perrotta, one of the most important Italian theater artists of the new generation.