Free time

From May 5 to 11 restaurants, pastry shops, streets, squares and historical buildings will be the meeting points for connoisseurs, gourmets, visitors, tourists and enthusiasts who will appreciate and learn about the local specialties.

"It rained manna for all the time that the Jews remained in the desert; forty years; the rain stopped when they arrived in the land of Canaan. When the Jews asked Moses what it was, he said, it is the bread which the Lord gave you to eat."

Everyone knows the biblical story. But probably not many people know that the manna, for a long time regarded as heavenly food, the food of angels, is a plant product suitable for several food and pharmaceutical uses. Also not so many people will know that it is produced - today - only in a very limited area of Sicily, within the territories of Castelbuono and Pollina, in the Madonie Park municipalities: the last oasis in the Mediterranean where the centuries-old traditions and techniques related to this crop are still preserved.