There are places that they have the faculty to upset our psychic personality. In one of this find again Alvina, "the lost girl " of the novel homonym of David Herbert Lawrence.

And Califano, minuscule of Lazio village near to Pescocalascio. Here, an'indicibile pagan grandeur of the twilight in the cold valleys and wild, where he persisted the feeling of the ancient of which knew the law of the human sacrifices. Alvina staies to amazed long, transfigured. "A wild rawness went down her in the heart". Under false name, Lawrence describes the cumin valley and the village of Picinisco, where the writer sojourned in the 1919, completing here his novel and describing the uncontaminated nature of this ignored slice of Ciociaria.

Today Lawrence house has been transformed in place of seen and farm holidays. the Pacitti commercial farm has lamb pasture-land and kidskins and they produce typical cheeses. On booking, to follow influences him literary that spring from the reading of the novel, it is possible sojourn you and degusiare typical cooks of the valley.

Choose the Comino Valley for a naturalistic itinerary and enogastronomic is an excellent idea for anyone loves the little secrets places of Italia.

Acquafondata, Atina, Belmonte, Broccostella, Campoli, Fontechiari, Saint Biagio Saracinisco, Saint Donato, Settefrati, Vallerotonda, Viticuso: do you know this name? Nearly certainly no, yet are beautiful places. Already the valley in show of incomparable beauty, let alone district of the Cabernet of Atina, strongly of the presence of numerous noble vines installed in the eight hundred from one's family Visocchi.

But then there are even the hypocrite, of excellent quality. and an only specialty in all the Lazio is the almond paste nougat, kind that of Alvito, heritage of a old tradition and still famous is the cannellini bean of Atina, city stupendous with a mighty ducal building and small button bean of Terelle. In all the area the pasta and beans is only flat extraordinary, with the characteristic of a sort soup with clipping of fresh pasta of water and said flour "sagne".

On the Posta Fibreno Lake, not skip the kitchen of rich fresh water of a trout of autochthonous variety, that has done augment a founded local school only on the dishes of fish. One of the address from don't lose for the quality and the competence of the gastronomic and the association the Cannardizie of Atina (away Visocchi hyacinth, [tel]. 34011424611-338/1507258).

Here Patricia varnishes will offer you better than the of Ciociaria tradition, from the "capezzella" or kidskin head to the chicken giblets "cheese and egg", to the "cicorietta", to the strozzapreti and to the "maccheroncini" to the iron, to end with the "pangiallo" (almond dessert and grapes passes). For a complete tour, go out recommend on the to the sono erases and Pontecorvo.

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