Savigno is a town particularly dedicated to traditional flavors, known for years for its “Precious White Truffle of the Bolognese Hills” and every second Sunday of the month, from May to September, it hosts the “Market of Good Things,” featuring all typical and organic valley products. In the town center, lies a treasure trove of delicacies: La Dispensa di Amerigo, with the adjacent restaurant and some very original rooms to host those who have ventured here. Inside, almost everything remains as it was in the 1930s, when grandfather Amerigo opened a grocery store, now managed by his grandson, Alberto Bettini.
The atmosphere is pleasantly retro, with a beautiful counter topped with red marble and spacious shelves filled with jars of syrup-preserved and spirit-soaked sour cherries, jams, cherry preserves without added sugar, and a delightful Marasca liqueur, as well as, of course, honeys, syruped chestnuts, sauces, pickles, tigelle, fresh pasta, cheeses, herb lard, and cured meats. All strictly produced in the valley. <>.
The abundance of water, brought not only by the Samoggia stream, fondly called “la géra” (the gravel) in dialect, but also by the Lavino, encouraged the establishment of many mills, and the last stop is precisely at one of these, a few kilometers above Savigno, in the Cà Bortolani area, where Fabio Rossi has restored the seventeenth-century “Doctor’s Mill,” where he grinds cereals and chestnuts, obtaining flours with which his mother Marisa makes very fragrant breads, cookies, mountain sweets, and crispy cherry tarts.
