Assisi, Shopping Near the Basilica of St. Francis

At the Bottega del Buongustaio, right in the center, you immerse yourself, for example, in a temple of legumes, cereals, local spelt, fragrant white and black truffles from Norcia, typical pasta and cheeses, wild boar salami and hams, organic jams and other delicacies. At the Pasticceria Sensi, on Corso Mazzini, traditional sweets reign: the rocciata, a rolled puff pastry arranged in a spiral filled with walnuts, apples, pine nuts, dried fruit; the brustengolo, a humble cornbread cake enriched with raisins, apples, walnuts and pine nuts; the francescani, cookies with raisins and honey; the Easter cake or the almond serpent. In the Franciscan lands, oil could not be missing: from the olive groves covering the hilly belt of Subasio come olives of the prized Moraiolo cultivar, as well as Leccino and Frantoio varieties, which allow the production of the Colli Assisi-Spoleto PDO extra virgin, a yellow-green treasure with an intense and fruity flavor, with decidedly bitter and spicy notes, available at the local mills, such as the Brunozzi Farm just a couple of kilometers from Assisi or the Due Torri Farm near Spello, which produces it from organically grown olives.