Parco Naturale Regionale delle Madonie

If you try it, you will buy it again! Madonie Sfoglio is the most characteristic sweet of the Park and boasts over 400 years of history. It consists of short pastry filled with tuma (a mountain cheese), candied pumpkin, egg whites, chocolate, sugar, and...

Oregano vulgare is the one that still grows wild in the Madonie mountains

Scillato is characterized by the production of a "blonde" orange, an umbilicate orange including the varieties Washington Navel, Nareline, and Navelate. These varieties find ideal conditions in this hilly area.

Sicilian black bee cardoon honey has liver-purifying properties and is produces in June and July. It is extracted by centrifugal force without any heat treatment.

After careful selection of the olives, the fine Extra-Virgin Olive Oil is obtained from healthy, controlled olives, picked at the right point of ripeness, cold pressed within 24 hours of harvesting and coming exclusively from trees in the Madonie...

The small treasure of the cooking tradition of Madonie The vegetable gardens of Polizzi Generosa, in Madonie Park, have been housing for over two centuries a medium-small and round bean, called in dialect "badda", meaning "ball". It is a two-color bean,...

Only recently rediscovered by nutritionists around the world, the tomato is now one of the foods strongly recommended for a healthy, balanced diet: it is rich in water, low in calories, with a good supply of minerals and trace elements, and contains all...

An ancient durum wheat with a low gluten index that recaptures the ancient flavours of the peasant civilisation. Its cultivation is used for the production of flours, for breadmaking but also for cakes and pasta.

The Madonie wine sector is not particularly widespread, because of the orographic characteristics. Actually, the Madonie vineyards are on the hills and face the sea. These indigenous vineyards produce Nero D'Avola, Merlot, Cabernet, Inzolia, Chardonnay, Savignon,...

The mine in Frazione Raffo, Petralia Soprana, represents one of the richest deposits in Europe. A huge salt lens in the heart of a mountain reaching the 1,100m above sea level.