SEASONS OF THE COUNTRYSIDE

Introduction

Autumn Portrait
The Space Of Memory		The fading light, the country lying in the silent, a melancholy lost along the furthest line of the horizon make Autumn the most spiritual season in the area.
The Fire of The bride		St.Martin’s festival in Scanno keeps structure and symbolic expressions reminding us the archetype of the passage and refounding rytes.
I Called a Saint and Nine came with our lady and St. Nicolas		In autumn the pastoral melancholy rediscovers the cosiness of the family and of fondness in the prayers and rytes.
Flavours and scents of the countryside in autumn		The autumnal typical products extra-virgin olive oil and wine can be tasted and bought in the following farms
Winter Time
Family Time		The traditional iconography of the calendars carved on the portals of the cathedrals represents Winter or January, the central month, a man sitting by a large fireplace roasting meat with a spit
Winter Tale		A banquet of story tellers in a garden in May is above all a literary topos narrated under the fascination of the courtly poetry. On the contrary, the time of the popular tale is winter and the privileged space is the red reflection of the fie.
Magic Time		L’inverno è tempo di predizioni e di oroscopi
Carnival Time		In the peasant culture, Carnival is one of the most complex, contradictor and astonishing moment in the year
Time of full barnes		In winter, if the harvest of the whole has been generous the farmer thanks God for his daily bread and rejoices for his fortune
Time of huge "panarde"		Winter banquets are always epic, starting with the Christmas Eve dinner, going on through the New Years’ Eve dinner, the ritual Panarde of St Anthony and finishing with the large banquets of Carnival.
Flavours and scents of the country in winter		The typical winter products: salami, legumes, jams and cakes can be tasted and bought in the following farms
Spring Airs
The land of milk and honey		Tritana valley is flowered with almond trees. Along this valley, part of the “Tratturo Magno” (sheeptrack) used to unwind and connect L’Aquila to Foggia (243 km)
Itinera callium		In a millennium time along these grassy ways villages, sanctuaries, rest points rose up; here religious activities, craftsmen corporations and merchant societies used to operate. The Abruzzese culture along this grassy bed (110m wide) flowed
If you enjoy listening		The transhumance told by a poet shepherd.
Flavours and scents of the mountain in spring		The typical spring products of the mountain (milk, sheep and cow cheese, ricotta, pecorino chilli cheese and Abruzzese hopney) can be tasted and bought in the following farms
Summer Days
The mother wheat		Lady of the seasons, thou who multiply the fruit and the ears of wheat secure this wheat to be reaped and to give many grains
The caporal and the quail		The harvest is a sacred representation of a rite in which the protagonists are the priest and the sacred victim and the main action is the communion with the divine spirit
Death song, Love Food		Songs and fruit are the recurrent elements in the summer agricultural big plays. Both of them by tradition, assume the exceptional and excessive character of drama
Flavours and scents of the countryside in summer		The typical summer products (cereals, vegetables, fruit and their transformation, jams, preserves, marmalades, products in oil) can be tasted and bought in the following farms