Chestnut festival

Chestnuts

Original name: Festa della Biondina

Place: Cana (hamlet), in municipality of Roccalbegna, in Grosseto Province

First year of the festival: 1987

Period: half of October

2019 scheduled on: from October, Friday 18 to October, Sunday 20

Opening times: Saturday, from 7 pm; Sunday, at lunch from 12 am and dinner, from 7 pm

Local Specialties:

• First courses: polenta con sugo di funghi, polenta with mushrooms sauce; zuppa di funghi, mushrooms soup;
• Second courses: salsiccia alla brace, grilled sausage;
• Dessert : castagnaccio, chestnuts cake; marmellata di castagne, chestnuts jam;
• One course dish: polenta di castagne con ricotta, chestnuts' polenta with ricotta; caldarroste, roasted chestnuts

In Cana village, it's the festival of the "biondina", in Italian "small blonde", i.e. the roasted chestnut! You can taste many mythical dishes made with chestnuts such as the castagnaccio, a very ancient cake made with chestnuts flour; the chestnuts polenta, a staples for all the mountain Italian people; or the chestnuts jam. Other season product, mushrooms, will largely be available on the menu and we wouldn't miss the polenta with mushrooms sauce!

Regarding the roasted chestnuts, it's one of the pleasures of Autumn season and in Cana, you can have them with a red wine glass, as the local cellars will be open to give the possibility exactly for this purpose.

Notice that Friday will be a sort of beginning of the festival, and the main festival days are Saturday and Sunday. Street music and other events are scheduled during the week end.