Saffron-Weekend in the Sirente-Velino Regional Park

Dates:
October/November - feel free to ask for your prefered date!

Saffron is also called "the red gold" because it's the most precious spice of the world! You can find saffron in the italian region Abruzzo. In the end of October, beginning of November the fields are full of the violet saffron-flowers. To get 1 kilogram of saffron you need about 150 000-200 000 flowers.

In this course we'll pick the saffron-flowers early in the morning and after that we have breakfast/brunch together and in a little course you learn something about saffron. In the afternoon we seperate the red saffron-stigma from the flowers and after that we dry it.
In the evening you'll have a dinner with typical dishes made with saffron in a local restaurant.

Details:
arrival the day before or very early in the morning (journey not included but we can pick you up at the airport of Pescara for an additional fee)
at 8 am picking of the flowers, return at about 10 am, brunch and saffron course
in the afternoon seperating and drying of the flowers
at about 7pm saffron-dinner in a restaurant.

You can keep 0.5g of saffron to take home.

Fee: from 89,00€
(picking saffron, course, brunch, dinner)
Please ask for dates and prices!

We can also reserve a room in a local Bed & Breakfast or apartment at the price of 35 €/person/night in a double room for you.
The growth of the Saffron depends on climate an seasonal conditions, we can't garantee the success!

Please don't forget to bring old clothes and good shoes!

Number of partecipants: Min 2

Information and reservation:
info@abruzzomio.de or phone 0039-3388681699 (we speak english, german and italian)

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