1. Savoca-Italy
Coordinating teacher: Lect. Univ. Mihai-Daniel Frumușelu
Student: Neață George-Augustin
Group :8213
University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest
Faculty of Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and Rural development
2. Savoca is one of the most beautiful villages
in Italy, whose name is derived from the plant of
the elder (savucu in Sicilian dialect), a shrub that
still grows wild in the cracks between houses
and which is represented in the medieval coat of
arms of the village.
3. An interesting religious place to visit is the Church of San
Michele, from the year 1250, on whose façade there are two
portals in Gothic-Sicilian style with sandstone arches. The single
internal nave of the church is contaminated with features of
baroque style. The building also houses several works of art and
frescoes. It is said that non-believers willing to convert to
Catholicism, were to climb “on their knees”, for penance, its
seven steps, before receiving the baptism.
4. Finally, there is the Church of San Nicolò, which
seems almost stretch out into space, built as it is on a massive
outcrop of rock. It has three wide aisles and an austere
atmosphere of the steep fortress over the valley. The curious
thing is that the church was one of the famous sets of
the film “the Godfather” along with the Bar Vitelli, housed
inside eighteenth century Palazzo Trimarchi. A Byzantine
mural has recently been uncovered which depicts St. John
Chrysostom, the father of the Christian Church of the East.
5. If you arrive very hungry in Savoca, you can
enjoy typical fresh tagliatelle pasta made by
hand, dressed with a wild fennel and pork meat
ragù sauce or alternatively, the maccarruna,
fresh macaroni pasta with pork rind in winter
and with aubergine in the summer.
6. The gastronomy of Savoca, refers to the rural
traditions and those of Sicilian cuisine: we can
try piscistoccu, dried cod cooked with plenty of extra
virgin olive oil, tomato paste, green and black olives,
capers, chili, potatoes, celery, u cunzatu breads local
homemade bread that is baked in a wood oven and
seasoned with extra – virgin olive oil, salt , pepper, to
Cuzzola, a fresh pasta sourdough , fried in olive oil and
roasted on charcoa.
