Assisi, shopping vicino alla Basilica di S. Francesco

At Bottega del Buongustaio, in the city center, one immerses themselves, 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 Pasticceria Sensi, in corso Mazzini, the traditional sweets reign supreme: la rocciata, a rolled pastry arranged in a spiral filled with walnuts, apples, pine nuts, dried fruit; brustengolo, a simple corn flour cake to which raisins, apples, walnuts, and pine nuts are added; francescani, cookies with raisins and honey; Easter cake or almond serpent. In the Franciscan lands, oil could not be missing: from the olive groves covering the hilly Subasio area come olives of the prized Moraiolo cultivar, as well as Leccino and Frantoio, which allow the production of the Colli Assisi-Spoleto Dop extra virgin olive oil, a yellow-green treasure, with an intense and fruity flavor, with decidedly bitter and spicy notes, available in the local mills, such as the Brunozzi Farm one, a couple of kilometers from Assisi, or at the Due Torri Farm, near Spello, which produces it from organically grown olives.