Where to eat

The “Salàda” meat with beans is a typical Garda of Trento dish, always present on the menus of the local restaurants and trattorias. The ancient traditional origins of this dish come principally from the method of conserving meat. Salt, in fact, the main ingredient for the preparation, serves to maintain…

Caponsei is a typical dish from upper Mantova and the moraine hills located south of Lake Garda. The recipe offers different variations depending on the region both in taste and in the spices used but the basic ingredients of stale bread and parmesan cheese remain. Tradition has it that the…

Inside the Palace Dogana Veneta, again this year Lazise will play host to a wine preview from the grape harvest 2011 of Bardolino and Chiaretto. Sunday March 6, 2011 at 10.00 a.m, seventy wine producers of the area and members of the  Wine Protection Association for the Bardolino and Chiaretto…

Typical carnival sweet, you can find apple fritters in different versions depending on the area of origin. Popular all over Italy, Venice fritters originated during the Renaissance era and come down to us to celebrate the time of jokes and dissoluteness that precedes the more moderate habits of  Lent.

On the 5th and 6th February 2011 the eighteenth-century villa Mirra of Cavrina (MN) hosts “Dulcissima” (very sweet), an exhibition about artisan sweets from the tradition of Mantova, Lombardy and Italy. To promote the initiative, the municipal district of Cavrina, the province of Mantova and the foundation Dominato Leonese with…