Culinary Feasts of Liguria

The Biscette Festival at Solva di Alassio in March celebrates this typical cake from the Loanese area, made with hazelnuts, flour and sugar, bound together with orange flower water and then fried in olive oil. It is shaped to resemble a snake.

In June, nursery owners display and sell their plants and herbs - especially Ligurian basil - in the streets of Andora. The town of Savignone holds an annual pesto festival using this fragrant local basil. Later in the summer, there is a celebration of red garlic in Vessalico. This rare vegetable is limited in production to only 3,000 braids of garlic, each with 24 heads, per year.