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The taste of Crete Senesi

The event began on 21 April but there have until May 31 to taste, suggestive scenario of Crete, between ravines and biancone “flavors of the” Crete Senesi “, over a month of events under the banner of taste, to discover the typical products of the area.
It is an event organized by the municipal administration of Asciano, with the aim of promoting local products and in particular some excellences such as pecorino delle Crete and the artichoke of closures.
A rich calendar of events between markets, tastings, tours, exhibitions and musical performances and entertainment. “Sapori delle Crete” will be officially opening Saturday April 21 in Piazza “Closures”, to celebrate all the taste, tradition and culture in famous Artichoke closures. Sunday 13 may date to Asciano for a series of events dedicated to cheese pecorino delle Crete: a market (Special Edition of Market of Crete) with many benches dedicated to the product and the ability to learn to taste the variety of local cheeses.
Finally, from 3 to 31 May, every Thursday, thanks to the collaboration of the municipal administration, s. c. Biancane, Fisar-Valdichiana and the delegation members, restaurants you can taste with “Asciano in the pot,” in five restaurants, special menu based on products of the rich basket of Crete Senesi, (3, 10, 17, 24 and 31 May).

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Girogustando 2012

44 are the cooks from all over Italy will move to Siena in Girogustando 2012 who took the boot to its eleventh edition. Discovering new seasons of other flavors, pairings you surprise always unpublished until the next 15. For this eleventh edition 44 cooks will alternate in pairs to present “four hands” unpublished menu, and representative of the respective knowledge and backgrounds. It’s the formula of the event conceived in 2002 by Confesercenti Siena, who will be unchanged but set in an environment full of news. Starting with calendar, which will propose every Wednesday and Thursday evenings of the second and third week, in months between March and June and between October and November. One of the novelties of this year are iMenu “trackable”, i.e. the paper claim farmers, breeders or other sources of origin of the ingredients used. The sommelier Ais shall serve the wine pairing, the restaurants involved turn up from time to time in art gallery for works by Sienese artists clingy DIdee group, and between one and the other will return opportunities for deepening and public entertainment.

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Pienza and the Flowers

It has become over the years a canonical celebration of spring, a flower that becomes a jubilation Ode to summer, but also a propitiatory rite of the agricultural year. Certainly today, Pienza and flowers is one of the most important towns for Pienza. An exhibition-high-quality market where many local nurseries and of the Tuscan provinces. The flowers already few days have flooded the historic pientino and the rinascentale Piazza Pio II, which this year has turned into a real garden.
The flower show will close the broader initiative that took off with the construction of the “Italian garden” in the central square dedicated to Pope Pius II and that was to harmonize the style and the botanical varieties with sublime architecture and geometry of one of the most beautiful and important squares in the world.

This is the 27 Edition of Pienza in bloom until 13 may in the Centre of Pienza, heritage of Unesco.

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